[selinkocalar]

Labor agreements in tech are soooo difficult to monitor. How do you collectively bargain around stock options, or remote work policies, or the pace of AI automation? The traditional labor playbook doesn't really apply here.

[bwestergard]

I'm a software engineer who has been part of a union bargaining committee, albeit at a non-profit media organization. I've known many engineers who have done it at for-profit organizations.

"How do you collectively bargain around stock options?"

Same as collectively bargaining over base comp?

"remote work policies"

My union contract guarantees me and all other software devs in my shop remote work for the life of the contract.

"pace of AI automation"

My union contract requires bargaining over any mandatory use of of AI. So far, there haven't been any major disagreements with management over this. At other workplaces in my union, management has had worse ideas.

[dragonwriter]

These aren’t “in tech” in the sense you seem to be thinking of it; from the article:

California lawmakers announced the agreement in late August, paving a path for ride-hailing drivers to unionize as labor wanted, in exchange for the state drastically reducing expensive insurance coverage mandates protested by the companies. It earned rare public support from Gov. Gavin Newsom and received final approval from state lawmakers this week.