Engineers, are you ready to organize yet?

[engineers_unite]

Throughout the early 2000s, and before, engineers have resisted efforts to organize. Usually this resistance was framed in either libertarian ideology, or with the shared hallucination that tech is a meritocracy and therefore engineers would get paid what they're worth.

After record profits in 2023, we're seeing here in early 2024 that big tech loves the taste they got last year and they're now laying off engineers at relentless rates. And no one is immune- in fact, the most talented/ highest paid engineers are the ones getting hit the most, because they are expensive and question the status quo.

The goldrush is over for the common engineer and the forces of capitalism and finance are destroying the gains engineers made. Are you ready to organize yet?

Imagine the political and social consequences of organized engineers at one of the super tech companies…

[throwitaway222]

how do you organize against inflation and monetary policy. the venture capitalists and CEOs can't get loans at these rates

[rhelz]

A large union can advocate for public policy which would benefit its members, and it would have the financial resources to form PACS, run advertisements, support candidates, etc.

A large union can hire lobbyists who can form long-term friendships with powerful politicians, and therefore can explain in a very persuasive manner how proposed legislation or Fed policy is affecting its membership.

Right now we have just about every other interest group doing all those things. And then we wonder why things just keep getting worse and worse for us.