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[-] 0xDREADBEEF@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Many people, like myself, can only get contract work as a software dev these days. Getting employment with any real benefits is harder and harder (often near impossible). How do you handle contractors? Completely avoids that answer. All of software devs need to unionize, not just your employee co-workers. Also, I'm going to be unemployed in a few weeks. This article leaves out completely how to get unemployed tech workers into a union. Thousands of devs are getting laid off with zero unions there to help them. Completely avoids dealing with them, as well.

Employment beholden to a single corporate entity and limited only by that corporate entity's desire to keep employed humans on payroll is not the road to a unionized workforce. Software engineers are often not profit centers. Anything not a profit center to a corporate entity will ultimately get outsourced. Solidarity across the entire industry is the only way to lasting change. You don't see carpenters or electricians or plumbers or welders being employed by a single corporation for 30 years and then retiring on a 401k. Those skillsets have industry-wide unions behind them.

[-] chobeat@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

because unions are the wrong tool for the problem. If you're unemployed, consider to reach out to WhatWeWill: https://wwwrise.org/

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