It Seems Like a Great Time for Meta and Amazon Devs to Unionize

Layoffs have already come for tens of thousands of tech workers this year, and more are on the way. For the workers who remain, their work is increasingly about training AI models and justifying the massive investments corporations have made in the technology. No better time than now to unionize the workforce, don’t you think? Unions in tech are rare (to be fair, they’re unfortunately rare everywhere). And while their absence is often attributed to the big compensation packages and “entrepreneurial spirit” that define working in the Valley, it’s probably more attributable to the fact that tech firms are extremely aggressive in sniffing out organizing efforts and carrying out union-busting tactics. But now, tech firms continue to cut staff (LinkedIn is reportedly starting a 5% reduction to its workforce) and pretty much openly threaten to kick as many employees as they can to the curb in favor of AI, it might be worth it for employees to band together. It sure seems like tech workers are interested in the kinds of things a union would fight for. According to a recent AFL-CIO poll of more than 1,500 Americans, a significant majority of respondents showed support for a ‘pro-worker AI