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    Tech workers are so well paid many don’t bother to join a union. That’s going to change.
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    Tech workers are so well paid many don’t bother to join a union. That’s going to change.


    Tech workers are so well paid many don’t bother to join a union. That’s going to change.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/05/24/tech-workers-are-so-well-paid-many-dont-bother-to-join-a-union-thats-going-to-change/

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    1. John__Delaney on

      The best time to join a union was the day you started the job. The second best time to join is today.

    2. FootFalse5536 on

      I can’t read the article to see where they got that but my bullshit detector going off on this.

      Speaking only for myself working in IT I am pretty criminally underpaid and so are lots of people I work with.

      And as for not joining a union, there was no union to join and I’m not going to even try to get one together myself. 

    4. mother_a_god on

      France lost of lot of tech companies due to it’s heavily unionised tech work forces, similar thing in Italy. For something as mobile as tech, when the big players are all multinationals who can at the stroke of a pen chose to shift to any one of hundreds of locations, it’s not a simple choice that union is always right. 

      If Ireland loses the MNCs it’ll be a lot poorerer. Maybe it would be the kick in the arse needed to actually get efficient public services for the money we have

    5. FeistyPromise6576 on

      The article is daft has hell. It tries and utterly fails to link AI layoffs to tech workers suddenly wanting to unionize while also admitting that any hypothetical union would be powerless to change anything.

    6. Willing-Departure115 on

      In general I think that the tech bros are showing that if they can, they’d like to see rights moving away from labour and towards capital (this is a see-saw that has happened throughout history). So I think a more assertive labour movement would be a good idea in these times, but obviously one rooted in fair treatment of workers and not just feathering of nests (as bad unions end up getting a reputation for being focused on).

    7. GarthODarth on

      I got seriously messed around a couple years ago and noticed that several of my colleagues were unionised and a lot less stressed about it all.

      I’ve been in a union ever since. I got lucky and learned my lesson during a minor mess around. I’ll have my union backing me up next time. It doesn’t cost much at all.

    8. Professional_Elk_489 on

      Irish govt should set in place some ground rules that strike a good balance between letting these companies go full Oracle vs packing up and leaving. It’s a national strategic imperative to get it right