Silicon Valley’s white-collar workers have been largely detached from organized labor. Artificial intelligence and ICE are giving employees new reasons to unionize.
Seniority is a terrible system to build a foundation from.
There’s nothing inherent in union membership that forces seniority to be a requirement. It made a certain amount of sense in commodity trades, but the volatility of skill requirements in software and high tech invalidate that assumption.
Unions can add a lot of extra process to things that don’t require it
That can happen. And then there are the things that do require it. Better to have dismissal for a legitimate cause than at-will employment and an arbitrary kick out the door.
There’s nothing inherent in union membership that forces seniority to be a requirement. It made a certain amount of sense in commodity trades, but the volatility of skill requirements in software and high tech invalidate that assumption.
That can happen. And then there are the things that do require it. Better to have dismissal for a legitimate cause than at-will employment and an arbitrary kick out the door.