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Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by rosywoozlechan on Sunday November 20, 2022 @01:51AM (#33678918)
> Why are tech workers so resistant to organized action?

If you mean software engineers when saying "tech workers" because unions make it harder to fire people. There's not much that makes a software engineer's job harder than a bad engineer who isn't getting fired and is destroying the quality of the product and the code and creating work for everyone else to fix, all the time.

Unions also result in gaining seniority by time spent in a job instead of competency, and that's also a miserable experience, when someone incompetent is dictating the engineering work. In software engineering you want people who are technically proficient and capable of mentoring to assume leadership positions and positions of increased responsibility, not people who've been there the longest.

Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by wahnfrieden on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:49AM (#33679674)
Software engineers in my first hand experience have been able to organize around coordinated action to get their employer to improve their conditions and pay without unions necessarily. One simple example of that is to coordinate around pay transparency