| > Or will they force employers to keep people on their payroll, who will not be doing anything productive? I don't know if unions could actually affect hiring or retention, but they can protect benefits, the sort of things that might go away during an economic downturn. > An in a long roundabout of thing, most of the time an overzealous union or two can be found close to the heart (root cause if you will) of the recession. That's certainly not the case of a tech recession, if one was to happen this year. > If you are good at what you do, your unemployment period is negligibly small. Call it an unpaid vacation. It's not a matter of unemployment. In harsh times, who knows what direction the industry will move towards as labor power disappears, in contrast to the past two years. Perhaps some firms might start moving towards 996, even. There are a lot of good things everyone took for granted during the good times, and in bad times, who knows how it'll change. This is simply a "memento mori" sort of caution as we appear to be on the onset of bad times. > This IT unionizing thing getting pushed more and more Is it really? Software is an industry that has been around for perhaps half a century? Any chatter towards unionization in the field seems as hypothetical as it always been, except at a few companies, so the usual anti-union alarmism is as hysterical as ever in a field as anti-union as this. |