Posted on 09/28/2024 9:06:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
American tech workers, along with lawyers and accountants, have some of the lowest rates of union membership in the country.
But in the last few years of ballooning layoffs, sentiments may be changing.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu, shows the percentage of U.S. tech employees that would join a union if their company had access to one.
Data is sourced from Blind, which conducted an online survey of 1,901 verified tech professionals.
Amongst the companies, union support appears to be highest at Intuit (financial software), General Motors, and Oracle (enterprise software).
| Company Name | Likely | Unlikely |
|---|---|---|
| 💼 Intuit | 94% | 6% |
| 🚗 General Motors | 92% | 8% |
| 🖥️ Oracle | 85% | 15% |
| 💻 Atlassian | 85% | 15% |
| 🎨 Adobe | 83% | 17% |
| 📶 Qualcomm | 83% | 17% |
| 82% | 18% | |
| 💽 Dell | 79% | 21% |
| 🏦 Capital One | 78% | 22% |
| 🌐 Cisco | 77% | 23% |
| 📱 ByteDance | 75% | 25% |
| 🔧 Intel Corporation | 74% | 26% |
| 📊 Splunk | 73% | 27% |
| 🟦 Block | 73% | 27% |
| 💳 Visa | 73% | 27% |
| 💸 Stripe | 73% | 27% |
| ☁️ Salesforce | 72% | 28% |
| 🎮 NVIDIA | 71% | 29% |
| 🛒 Amazon | 70% | 30% |
| 🧑💼 Indeed.com | 70% | 30% |
| 🏦 PayPal | 69% | 31% |
| 👗 Nordstrom | 69% | 31% |
| 🏢 Meta | 67% | 33% |
| 🖥️ ServiceNow | 64% | 36% |
| 🚗 Uber | 64% | 36% |
| 🖥️ Microsoft | 63% | 37% |
| 🛍️ Walmart | 60% | 40% |
| 👻 Snap | 58% | 42% |
| 🚙 Rivian Automotive | 58% | 42% |
| 📝 DocuSign | 55% | 45% |
| 🏦 JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 50% | 50% |
| 🍏 Apple | 47% | 53% |
| 🚗 Tesla Motors | 45% | 55% |
| 40% | 60% | |
| 📊 Survey Average | 67% | 33% |
On the other hand, Tesla, DocuSign, and Google employees have the least desire to join a union.
As it happens, over a thousand workers in North America already belong to the Alphabet Workers Union, which represents employees at Google and other subsidiaries like Waymo.
Meanwhile, Tesla has been involved in several controversies regarding unions. For example, in May 2024, a U.S. labor agency accused by Tesla of discouraging workers from creating a union at its Buffalo, NY plant.
However, on average 67% of those polled in the Blind survey said they were likely to join a union and 73% said that unions “mostly helped.”
When Blind asked tech workers why the industry’s union membership rate is so low compared to other jobs, the general sentiment indicated that tech employees are already well compensated for their jobs, without needing collective bargaining.
The tech sector might be poised for an upswing after Federal Reserve’s first big rate cut. Check out How Sectors Perform After Rate Cuts to see where else gains are made.
NO to "Unions" -- they're COMMUNIST.
I’m fortunate to be a decent union position. I also have to be to do my job. Most of the other office workers in different jobs organized 5-6 years ago because the company was putting screws to everyone and not paying decent wages.
If a company is fair and pays competitive wages, generally workers aren’t interested in unions.
Don’t care as long as they’re not public unions where the taxpayers are NOT represented in the collective bargaining.
And when these soft-trade private companies unionize, there will be plenty of hurt.
Joining a labor union is like volunteering to take military orders from Kamala Harris or from Hillary Clinton.
Outside of government, fewer and fewer employees choose to join a union.
You are free to join one if you wish.
it all depends on the type of union.
and I suppose the country it is in. I have heard ok things about unions in germany.
I have seen good and bad unions in the united states, yes mostly bad and corrupt.
I suspect the founding fathers would agree that government unions need refreshing at some point
Unions systematically destroy industries, and so are constantly looking for new profitable fields to exploit.
Money is one thing. Forced full time return to office is another. Money will make workers put up with a lot of crap, but everyone has their breaking point.
Companies usually end up with the unions that they deserve.
Tech workers were fine with the obscene pay they’ve been getting and were willing to put up with a lot. Forcing return to the office just to appease the international financiers may well be what forces the tech folks to join unions.
Pay well, and more importantly, treat people well, and there won’t be any unions.
It really is inseparable from the Democrat party line.
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