Technikarbeiter werden so gut bezahlt, dass viele sich nicht die Mühe machen, einer Gewerkschaft beizutreten. Das wird sich ändern.
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/
Von homecinemad
13 Kommentare
The best time to join a union was the day you started the job. The second best time to join is today.
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.
Let me check my bank account. Yeah I’m not well paid.
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
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.
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).
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.
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
Eh the article assumes every tech worker in Ireland works for Meta or Microsoft. There are likely hundreds of small < 100 people companies that have tech workers. Try starting a union in one of those and see how you get on.
Una Mullally is a spoofer.
People don’t not join unions because they are well paid. People don’t join unions as they don’t see the benefit in today’s society!
Been around the houses with a union in the financial services sector and they did sweet fuck all. Got a sit down with the MD only for him to sit patiently through whole meeting and tell the lot of us to fuck off.
Thanks for the reminder, joined [DATA](https://www.datacwu.ie/) this morning, took 3 mins
An absolute minority of tech workers are „so well paid“. Theres a small handfull of disproportionate paying companies around like meta etc, but the rest of us are mere peasants.