Everybody's salary needs to increase and the only way we can achieve this is through unions. There isn't one single employer that I've met out there in the IT field that was ever willing to increase my salary beyond 2%. It's always "too much". Meanwhile my cost of living has nearly doubled.
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To people who think they "don't deserve it" - if their job is so easy, why don't you get off your ass in your nice air conditioned office and do it yourself?
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The 170k number is also essentially fiction, it's corporate reported and includes all costs rolled into it. There are definitely drivers that make 6 figures, but their w2 is closer to 100k than 170k. Most the reaction is stupid people not realizing this.
Wages versus other wages isn't the zero-sum game, in fact it's the opposite. When they do better we all do better in labor getting a bigger piece of the economic output pie.
Tech/IT workers in not only the US, but mostly globally, have only themselves to blame though, since there is this weird anti union mindset that has infected the whole sector.
Whenever unions are mentioned on sysadmin related subreddits or communities, almost everyone is very negative, which is a shame.
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So I am in a "Right to Work" State and I have thought about this for a minute now... Given the support is there, how hard is it to start a union in a particular field/industry in a city? I have been in Tech and IT for the last +10 years and I while I havent met too many Union Deniers, no one seems to know why there is no Tech Unions out here. Is there a place I could reach out for guidance?
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Only problem is less and less people get into full-time positions and more and more are hired part-time and fired when convenient.
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Tech workers are the salties cucks out there. The fact that some believe the MIT (cuck) license is freeer than the GPL (chad) license. these people are beyond repair.
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