People don't start fighting when times are good. Whenever we "buy time to organize", we go out to brunch instead.

A movement only happens when it's needed, not when it's best for us.

Posted by someone who is bitter that ppl can wfh in tech and no one suffers (business actually flourished if looking at the numbers, gets less cars on the road and less stress) except useless middle managers who only know how to micro manage

You deserved your lay off. You don't actually produce revenue, parasite.

There are tens of millions of tech jobs, the vast, vast majority of which is doing boring stuff like running the websites you visit.

...and then in their free time some create platforms like the one you're on roght now, for free. So the generalization you made therr isn't that appreciated.

well, from where else should come the power to interject with the company's plans if not from forming unions? Like what does it mean to hold a company accountable if you have no leverage? Quitting and making a post on social media about it?

It’s good to be suspicious, a healthy dose of critical thinking is well warranted.

But I would advice you consider that everyone and their mother was encouraged to “become the next Bill gates” if they’d showed any acumen in computers at all since about 1985. Also consider that working on a piece of software or infrastructure is often that piece; you don’t always get to see the big picture.

Overall I think this is a good thing; I guess it really matters how this union is controlled. Will it really be in the hands of the majority, etc

Don't let perfection be the enemy of good.

At least they are fighting back. And now they have the collective power to stop working.

Sounds like you live in a black and white world. Sorry, the world is not as easy as you'd like.

Trying to claim that all people who work in tech are in on sinister plots for Big Tech is cartoon-level oversimplification.

the people at the top are making all the decisions lol, sure there are some that are quite indifferent, but from the AI scheme, its all c-suites, and ceos.

Intersting pint. Not entirely wrong either. The main issue is you said "borderline". Drop that and you would be more accurate. Henchmen are usually the people who get thrown to the wolves to protect the evil leader. That too is accurate. Do you think henchmen do that willingly? I can tell you they do not. You can look at google and microsoft and such, where tech workers have spoken out about d What their company is doing. They don't like it. But there are very very few jobs in tech where the company isn't evil. So the best course of action they can take is to try to get some control and steer the company away from evil. They won't be able to make it not evil, they just can't get that much power. But they can make it a bit less evil. And if the union gets big enough it can lobby politicians and such to get laws passed that can further contain the evil. So it's kinda just something that can be done.

also they have literally the highest minimum wage in the united states.

It's neither. Sometimes you gotta plant trees at the second best time.