A Tech Union!?

Most of us pride ourselves on solving our own problems -- but when it comes to making big changes in the workplace or getting big companies and clients to change, going alone can be tough sledding.

In the new economy, workplace security and working one job for an entire career are truly anachronisms. Maybe “an IT workers union” sounds like one too. Or maybe not. It’s an important question we will be talking about here at TechsUnite.

Read more on tech unions:

• Why we need Alliance@IBM
  Alliance@IBM
  
  
• IT Unions? Will Big Blue accept a white collar union?
  James Mathewson, ComputerUser.com
  
  IT Unions II -- I touched a nerve with the talk of unions for geeks
  James Mathewson, ComputerUser.com
  
  
• IT workers need a union
  Mike Blain, Washington Alliance of Technology Workers
  
  

• Don’t wait for last bus to unionize
  Australian IT Workers Alliance

• Open source unionism -- Beyond exclusive collective bargaining
  Joel Rogers, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, and Richard Freeman, Harvard Trade Union Program

• New poll shows increased worker interest in unions
  For the first time in twenty years, more non-union workers say they would vote to form a union than those who would not, according to a Peter Hart Associates poll commissioned by the AFL-CIO.

• Labor Day poll reveals deep mistrust of corporate America
  Another poll by the Employment Law Alliance, found that 58 percent of workers support more union organizing to protect employees.

But while we are tackling the union question, we hope this site is a useful place for answering important questions you may have about your career – on critical issues like education and training, benefit and contract issues facing freelance workers, and other emerging issues in our community.