Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on...
by jokola on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:32PM
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> If a time comes where a good dev cannot choose where they work and basically negotiate their own terms [...] then unionization may be warranted.
When that time comes it will very likely be too late to effectively organize. It might already be.
Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on...
by astronautjones on Friday January 19, 2018 @10:02PM
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It's definitely too late on a national scale (not limited to this industry). Labor has been utterly and totally decimated
It's not that people disagree about them, it's that many developers don't suffer from them.
I'm a professional developer and, for me personally, everything in your list is a non-issue. I left BigCo where they were an issue. But I sure can think of a host of issues that I would be concerned about were I part of an organization, one of which being someone else saying what are and aren't issues to me.
If a time comes where a good dev cannot choose where they work and basically negotiate their own terms (e.g. I'm not putting up with any of that stuff in your list and I don't have to in our current market), then unionization may be warranted. But as it stands now, I think many of the issues you listed are avoidable and good devs call their shots.
The HN complaints you hear are an echo chamber and shouldn't be a basis for your opinions on the industry as a whole.