This must be US centric yeah? I am in a union in Denmark as an engineer, and was when I was specifically a software engineer too.

I hope it can happen everywhere, it's been great for us in the few years I've been part of it.

I'm in one right now. There's a ton of guilds too in the US.

Got me a raise and fought a RTO sillyness.

As their jobs keep getting devalued, by AI (whether appropriate or not), and they are increasingly treated as unskilled labor, there will be more pressure to organize in order to mitigate losses in pay and benefits.

Tech workers needed to unionize yesterday. The trillion dollar investment to automate away white collar work should have us all organizing. Unfortunately, software engineers tend to be very tepid and don't want to rock the boat. I've also found myself contracting a lot lately which gives me substantially less power to organize. But even the tendency towards contracting is one that disempowers workers and makes them feel disposable.

Unionization desperately needs to happen.

If it was possible to create a union without interacting with each other, it would already be done.

Some already have. It's illegal to stop it.

I remember an old coworker said he was anti union. "I'd just find another job if I didn't like the one I had", he said. Bold claim.

Am tech worker. Where do I sign?

My personal bet would be no. They’ll automate themselves away and slovenly play the corporate game before unionising. As a collective that is. Perhaps there’s lots to say about the culture of the profession, but I suspect it’s just too childish and spoilt.

I am in a union, and I think everyone should join or start one too. It's important to lay the groundwork for a strong union while you are still in a secure position, for the day you may not be. Like tech workers are seeing now.

I've had colleagues who don't see the need to join a union because they have such strong protection in their contract so union memberships are dwindling in some areas... those people are incredibly short-sighted and don't seem to get that a strong union got those protections into their contract before they even started the job, and a weak union can see those strengths becoming hollowed out in time.

Use your strength to protect the weak. If nothing else then because you may one day become weakened yourself.

They already do in France. In the video game part of tech, too.

Tech workers are more than software engineers.

CAIT: Collective Action in Tech and the Tech Workers Coalition are both trying. Support them as best you can.

no, especially if they are all getting laid off, or barely getting hired. the time to do it was like 10 years ago, when they were hiring in-demand, even then laying them off will likely negate the union anyways if they arnt hiring them back.

Should we? Yes. Will we? Software Engineers are overall too prideful for that

Tech Workers Coalition exists, as does IWW, though neither fit what most folks think of when they think of unions

I used to be in one

Nope. They're too economically right wing self-absorbed to unionize.