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Is an IT union really a good idea?

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by n2y2

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It is my humble opinion that unions are the scouge of the American workplace.

I will admit that they have been historically nessesary, but they tend to linger after their purpose is serve and drain the resources of corperations like a leach draining the blood of their host.

It troubles me that this weeks poll shows more people favor unionization than don't.

listen carefully:

Unionization is for over-populated fields where workers are so common that management can disregared the rights of the works because there is always a ready supply of more. The presence of a union promotes slothfulness, ill-will, and kills ingenuity.

The only people who desire to have the "safety" that a union can bring are those that don't have a skill that is in demand or are just too lazy to turn in honest work.

There are not enough electrons in Tech Republic for me to tell you how I really fell about unions, but let me end with this. I once was forced to work a union job (i.e. join the union to get the job) After a couple of weeks, the union rep told me that I was working too hard and it reflected poorly on the other workers. He went on to threaten that if I did not slow down, "I would never work in this town again."

Yeah, go union (read with thick sarchasm)

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by generalist

Unions can improve the quality of life for their workers in the proper environment.

At the same time, they can muck things up so that nobody wins, except for the union officials.

It would be interesting to see how a union of highly creative technical people would function. Properly managed, it could be more of a professional society with the teeth needed to convince management that certain practices are stupid and should be avoided.

by twhaight

On the other hand, it can muck things up.
Take the case of at my job site. I'm on a government contract. When computers (and other hardware) have to be moved, we have to set it up with the movers, who are Teamsters. Not too bad to deal with, especially if there is a lot to be moved.
But when you need to have work done inside the box, you have to have it done by a union intrument tech (such as memory upgrades, replace bad net card, etc).

by pallan

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that IT will be understaffed ad infinitum. This is clearly a flawed piece of logic. In fact, IT people are already being pushed too hard by many employers. They're just not old & wise enough to realiseit.

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