well, speaking as an american from the midwest, unions are usually sneered at as a waste of resources by people who have to pay for union workers.
We need to make sure that we aren't getting taken advantage of by our employers (examples: shitty pay, terrible work environments, bad equipment, conspiracies to lower wages), aren't implementing poor practices (things like backdoors for the government), and aren't subject to things like sexism, racism, ageism (as you age and learn more and get better at what you do, its going to be harder to get a job - does that seem fair?).
I'd prefer to be part of a tech union that helped ensure my safety in these areas.
admittedly i don't know enough about unions to know how the current structure would benefit our industry, but we need something similar at least.
We need to make sure that we aren't getting taken advantage of by our employers (examples: shitty pay, terrible work environments, bad equipment, conspiracies to lower wages), aren't implementing poor practices (things like backdoors for the government), and aren't subject to things like sexism, racism, ageism (as you age and learn more and get better at what you do, its going to be harder to get a job - does that seem fair?).
I'd prefer to be part of a tech union that helped ensure my safety in these areas.
admittedly i don't know enough about unions to know how the current structure would benefit our industry, but we need something similar at least.