• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caOP
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      3 months ago

      This is likely the case with GM given that their manufacturing is unionised. Engineers just got a demo what that can do for them last year. They aren’t getting the raise assembly workers got.

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      3 months ago

      Silicon valley is full of H1B visa holders who can’t speak up politically or risk deportation.

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        3 months ago

        This makes a lot of sense. I can definitely see those companies at the bottom having way more H1B workers than the ones st the top.

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          And a person with an H1B can only change to a job within a certain radius of their current job and if it’s beyond that radius they need to report it to the govt.

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      Edit: cause some jackass is implying I’m a bot - I should have joined a union and a union would’ve protected me from the mass layoff in '23 but that doesn’t change that while there I never thought about needing a union because it was such a nice place otherwise.

      As someone who previously worked at Google - they didn’t have any antiunion propaganda.

      They just, like, paid well, had top tier benefits, great perks, and had a good work life balance.

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          That’s my situation at a Silicon Valley tech company. Nobody ever mentioned unions one way or another but I honestly have no idea what I could ask for that I don’t already get. We have good benefits, good perks, everyone works frok home, unlimited PTO that nobody tries to limit or work around (all we are asked for is to give a rough estimate of time we’ll be taking off during each quarter so that it can be factored into planning), good work environment, good pay.