A lot of technicians have been talking a lot at lunch about unions. It did not seem fathomable in the past but it sure seems like we need them now. With AI, low compensation, being treated different than the rest of the company it sure seems ripe to organize. Unionization can empower tech employees to have more control over their working conditions and ensure that our voices are heard in the rapidly evolving tech industry at Intel right now. How do others feel? We r feeling pretty neglected in Arizona right now.
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Technician jobs probably the safest in the company (depending on the site). It's the Eng jobs that AI will eliminate first
i'd love intel to unionize. as soon as it did the board would breakup and dissolve the company. would be the best thing that the shareholders could hope for. unionization will accelerate the inevitable and save the shareholders a ton of money. so my vote? go for it!!
Well with AI about to eliminate a lot of our jogs according to my boss. On top of it the company wants to hire us and fire us aligned to eager starts. Everyone else is making money on our backs. We are the heart and soul of the company and we are treated the worst. We will be thrown aside, believe me. Intel can be better with a unified and unionized technician organization. AI is like the beginning of the industrial revolution and we need get protection !
If you work hard as a tech, you’ve already lost.
Take it a step further, turn Intel into a worker owned co-op. Workers already know how to run the business and fix the machines. The CEO doesn't. All you have to do is buy the right machines, install them, and create the recipes to hit nodes every 5 years. Just because a CEO sounds smart when they say things like Copper Barrier Seed or Atomic Layer Deposition doesn't make them smart.
Bring the union to TSMC, intel auto win
Coming from someone with experience. Please do not bring in a union. I have worked in union shops and it's a shell game. Stay as far away from this as possible.
That would make things way worse. Take that nonsense somewhere else.
You can get signatures to get this on the WA county or Oregon voting.
The most effective way to force Intel to pay more is for employees leave for other jobs if they feel underpaid.
Do you want to become Boeing?
Unions would accelerate an already failing company.
There’s no money.
Products are not good.
If unions thought it was worthwhile they would have been working the sites already. They are greedy too, they probably don't see a return on their efforts.
+1
Same is going on in Ireland at the min, technicians have been getting together and have approached some or the unions.
Unionization now would be like remodeling the guest rooms on the Titanic as it's sinking below the waves.
The company is dying, why bother?