Unions haven't made much headway in the tech industry.

blue collar workers.

The word workers is the key.

There are owners and there are workers.

The owners receive the largest relative share of the profits, the workers are paid a portion of the profits.


No matter how highly paid, the workers are still controlled by the owners,

(reporters, copy editors, writers, artists, photographers) and how the union threat was attempted to be beaten back was by management using the term "knowledge workers" in meetings with us.

Which was of course meant to be a sort of an elevator term that set us apart and above mere blue collar workers. We didn't fall for it.

The tactic failed miserably as we unionized and some management heads rolled.

Hope tech workers get past that exclusionary mindset and vote in unions for their own best interests.

She is not unionized, and she understands how a union could help, but as you noted, some professionals, with the encouragement of the bosses, see themselves as apart from the labor movement.

They are a nation-wide union that seeks to protect writers of all sorts in contract negotiations.

https://nwu.org/

Thank you.