I’m trying to organize my coworkers as yet another layoff looms on the horizon but everyone I talk to is compensated enough that they view themselves as “fine without a union”, but they don’t seem to grasp that there are entire swaths of industry dedicated to finding ways to reorganize the industry (mainly forcing ai down our throats) for the betterment of shareholders and executives hoping to reap massive short term gains….
Does anyone know how to get through to currently decently compensated software devs to show them why we need unions (to help mitigate layoffs, to have a say in company direction — like how devs at Google protest military contracts, gaining more transparency into performance reviews and promotion processes, or even just organizing in hopes of achieving some collective bargaining agreement where the employer can’t lay people off as easily…)????