If layoffs keep continuing, IBM employees should begin unionization efforts or threaten to do so.
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Every country in the world other than the US has real laws (that they actually enforce) to protect labor and after these next couple of bloodlettings there won't be enough IBM employees in the US to organize.
That won’t happen. Didn’t happen in the past when brought up and won’t happen now. IBM does not care about you. Just remember that. You are nobody to them. They are a machine and you are simply a cog in the machine. Easily replaced.
Unions are useful when a work environment has something that is worthy of preservation, and it cannot be preserved by other means. Tech employees can easily improve their situation by moving to another company...it's not like the old days of company towns where employees had nowhere else to go and had to fight to save their livelihoods.
Alliance@IBM ended up folding because neither IBM executives nor coworkers provided any support for the unionization effort.
What would an employee get out of unionization that they couldn't get by simply moving to another company?
If it didn't happen when we had over 400k employees and factories with actual laborers. (They tried like he-l, lives where ruined. I'm sure a link to the facebook page is still out there somewhere.) What makes you think it could happen now? Nobody cares. If you are a US based employee, you got yourself and maybe a lawyer if you are lucky enough to be in a position that you don't have to sign anything for that last paycheck. Good luck all
I've not met any right wing wack jobs at IBM.
This web site though is infested with them and I suspect none of them work at IBM.
Unions would accelerate the off-shoring of jobs, just like it did with scores of other industries. The globalists will gain wealth in any case.
There are too many right wing wack jobs working for the company to successfully unionize.
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Maybe so but constant layoffs might very well give them an appetite for unionization. Layoffs build internal tension between bands and people might want to unionize just to spite upper management.
There is little appetite for unionization in many, or perhaps most, tech circles. The last unionization effort at IBM ended a little under 10 years ago, where some employees tried to join up with the CWA (Communications Workers of America). It failed for a number of reasons, including low membership and lack of support from the company.
Just my opinion, but I'd suggest that many tech workers see few upsides to union membership, and many downsides. The tech industry is already an industry that is high-paying for the ambitious, with great freedom of movement between employers and employees. The presence of unions would mess that up...no sale.
American engineers in general should unionize across the industry. Tech is globalizing US engineering jobs, but not forcing globalization outside the US.