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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish my industry had unions lol

[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago

Find enough other people who think that way and it will.

[–] meteorswarm 2 points 1 year ago

Hey friend, from your post history it looks like you're a software person in some capacity, or at least you have the tech skills of one.

Your industry has unions. I'm in one. It's hard work - tech is mostly not organized. But you can absolutely do it, and you can win real, material improvements to your working conditions, with or without going through a union election.

My software engineering coworkers using our union have, in the last year, won at least these things through direct, bottom-up organizing on our shop floor:

  • 2 weeks notice of manager or work assignment changes
  • Removal of a misogynist manager
  • Several policy concessions around this specific thing our company does to frighten workers at performance review time
  • Dropped mandatory overtime on a team
  • Changes to hiring transparency to improve hiring of under-represented minorities

None of us were organizers three years ago.

Feel free to DM me to talk more, or you can check out some other resources: