Why is that? Companies still need employees, and ai makes it more obvious than ever that workers need to organize together for their rights.

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epolanski an hour ago | parent [-]

Unions have 33% voting power in Volkswagen board.

Germany has very strong labor protecting laws.

Replacing line engineers and operators is very difficult.

Volkswagen is firing 100k employees in Germany none the less.

The idea that you can successfully unionize in software..in US..Where you could simply retain a small number of staff key members pay them very well and put them on a mission of outsourcing and milking the IPs..I don't see it.

The best moment to unionize wad 20 years ago.

Now there's not enough leverage by the staff.

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lenkite 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Volkswagen Group (and in general German manufacturing) profits slumped by ~50% because of banning Russian gas and stringent U.S. import tariffs. The increase in gas costs made German manufacturing uncompetitive compared to China.

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bitwize 32 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

It's almost as if... laborers in every field (the proletariat) have to unionize as a class against the ownership class (the bourgeoisie), seize the means of production, and reorganize society to their own benefit because the bourgeoisie surely will not!

	▲	mghackerlady 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		but that's communism, which is bad because the Department of Education said so while making us read fiction