Re: Stick
There is a general problem with the IT, somehow the workers have strong dislike for unions.
There is thinking especially among developers that:
a) they earn above average, so they are very lucky. After all they just sit by the computer and click mouse and don't break their back at some warehouse.
For years, decades, we felt that we were earning good money. Working with your brain, not your hands. IT has a special position in businesses were we are 'trusted' with everything. Financials, sales, manufacturing, it all ran on our systems. Yes, we had to be on call 24x7. Give up holidays, weekends, and just normal nights of sleep to deploy and patch systems so that the business wouldn't have any down time. We were special, the business relied on us. We don't need a union. It's in our culture. Sure, I don't want to work tomorrow night deploying config changes that wouldn't even be a blip on the business's radar if we deployed them during the day, but a union would just get in the way.....
And all the time we've been thinking we were special and management respected and valued us, they've been rolling out things like Agile and turning software development into an assembly line where developers are just numbers. But we don't need a union.