IT Worker Unions
I work at a place that seems rather employee-friendly (hurrah!), so I am not preoccupied with thoughts of organized labor in the IT workplace as I once was. However I have not forgotten my suffering peers in the corporate world.
What’s taking geeks so long to unionize? I honestly have no idea. Especially considering we are the most internet-literate people around, with myriad advanced communication tools at our disposal.
My innate fear kept me from stepping up as a leader before (family to feed), and my innate selfishness (I am not personally being treated unfairly at the moment) makes me lazy now. But this article refreshed a longtime fantasy of mine: what would happen if all the IT workers at a company went on strike?
Everybody knows what would happen: business would immediately come to a halt. Friends, that’s power. Let’s use the power we have to get what we want. Lord knows your employer does.