By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-29 05:31:23 | Updated at 2024-09-30 09:35:04
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Charted: How American Tech Workers Feel About Joining a Union
Visual Capitalist ^ | 09/28/2024 | Marcus Lu
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.
Which Tech Company Employees Are Likely to Join a Union?
Amongst the companies, union support appears to be highest at Intuit (financial software), General Motors, and Oracle (enterprise software).
| 💼 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% | |
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.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: technology; union; workers
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1 posted on 09/28/2024 9:06:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
NO! I've got 40+ years in Information Technology, worked hard my entire career, kept learning and moving up the ladder. I'm more than capable of negotiating my own contracts, salary, etc..
NO to "Unions" -- they're COMMUNIST.
2 posted on 09/28/2024 9:08:39 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: SeekAndFind
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.
3 posted on 09/28/2024 9:24:03 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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.
4 posted on 09/28/2024 9:32:41 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
To: SeekAndFind
Joining a labor union is like volunteering to take military orders from Kamala Harris or from Hillary Clinton.
5 posted on 09/28/2024 9:36:15 PM PDT by linMcHlp
To: SeekAndFind
Outside of government, fewer and fewer employees choose to join a union.
You are free to join one if you wish.
6 posted on 09/28/2024 9:49:10 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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