Despite the efforts of many different organizers over the years software developers have resisted unionization. The relatively high pay and good working conditions of developers, the stereotype of geeks as loners and the general decline of unions in the U.S. are all commonly cited reasons. But maybe unions are failing in tech because they’re not addressing the real issue: giving developers more… → Read More
A story in the pro-union journal InTheseTimes paints Apple store workers as exhausted, demoralized, and generally ready to strum a little Woody Guthrie and hold hands around the old trash barrel, hissing at scabs.
CultOfMac pulls out a few pertinent quotes:
Veteran Apple Store workers asking about pay disparities (namely, that new hires were being paid more than many employees who had been at… → Read More
According to a Reuters report an employee at a San Francisco Apple store, Cory Moll, is working on forming an Apple retail employees’ union, thereby giving the geniuses a few bargaining rights.
“There’s definitely no call to action yet. Right now what I hope to gain is to get people to start talking about it and get comfortable with it,” he said. → Read More
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