Techies - Shouldn't You Form a Union? http://blog.noslaves.com/techies-engineers-shouldnt-you-form-a-union/ Cyberactivism on Trade, Economics and Labor Arbitrage Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:31:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 Techies - Shouldn't You Form a Union? http://blog.noslaves.com/techies-engineers-shouldnt-you-form-a-union/#comment-2792 Charles Macedo Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:24:01 +0000 http://blog.noslaves.com/techies-engineers-shouldnt-you-form-a-union/#comment-2792 How about patterning the name of the new organization representing the interests of technology related professionals, similar to the: the American Medical Association (AMA) the American Bar Association (ABA) call it, very simply the American Technological Association (ATA) It fits very nicely alongside the other 2. How about patterning the name of the new organization
representing the interests of technology related
professionals, similar to the:
the American Medical Association (AMA)
the American Bar Association (ABA)

call it, very simply
the American Technological Association (ATA)

It fits very nicely alongside the other 2.

]]> Techies - Shouldn't You Form a Union? http://blog.noslaves.com/techies-engineers-shouldnt-you-form-a-union/#comment-2645 MECHANICAL ENGINEER Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:04:59 +0000 http://blog.noslaves.com/techies-engineers-shouldnt-you-form-a-union/#comment-2645 I am a professional mechanical engineer. We have the power and we just don't realize it and we just will not cooperate. Engineers could be getting higher pay and rewarded for our intellectual property. I am a contract engineer and part of my pay goes to the "job shop". Why don't the engineers own the job shops. The lawyers have a union it is called the bar association. $300/hr Doctors have a union and it is called the AMA. $300/hr Even teachers have the NEA. $55,000 for 9 months of dumbing down our kids. If any of the above stop working the country is better off. Deaths actually go down when doctors go on strike. If we stop the country comes to a halt. The members in the trade unions are really are closest allies not management. Why are you attacking Obama for selling out. The Neocon republicans have been doing it for years. Outsourcing. There is one company who brings in temporary workers from the Phillipines Lake Charles, LA by the thousands. Even the Mexicans are leaving this country. I want to leave too. I have already learned Spanish. There is a shortage of engineers in the US and now is the time to strike. We organize and cooperate or we die. Osama Bin Ladin is a civil engineer. I am a professional mechanical engineer.

We have the power and we just don’t realize it and we just will not cooperate. Engineers could be getting higher pay and rewarded for our intellectual property.

I am a contract engineer and part of my pay goes to the “job shop”. Why don’t the engineers own the job shops.

The lawyers have a union it is called the bar association. $300/hr

Doctors have a union and it is called the AMA. $300/hr

Even teachers have the NEA. $55,000 for 9 months of dumbing down our kids.

If any of the above stop working the country is better off. Deaths actually go down when doctors go on strike. If we stop the country comes to a halt.

The members in the trade unions are really are closest allies not management.

Why are you attacking Obama for selling out. The Neocon republicans have been doing it for years. Outsourcing. There is one company who brings in temporary workers from the Phillipines Lake Charles, LA by the thousands. Even the Mexicans are leaving this country. I want to leave too. I have already learned Spanish.

There is a shortage of engineers in the US and now is the time to strike. We organize and cooperate or we die.

Osama Bin Ladin is a civil engineer.

]]> Techies - Shouldn't You Form a Union? http://blog.noslaves.com/techies-engineers-shouldnt-you-form-a-union/#comment-2369 elgringocolombiano Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:47:03 +0000 http://blog.noslaves.com/techies-engineers-shouldnt-you-form-a-union/#comment-2369 I think the model should be "licensed professional societies" that other US occupations like actuaries, medical doctors, pharmacists, etc have. These orgs perform the functions of unions, in that they protect their workers by 1 limiting supply of new workers entering the field 2 legislating that particular tasks legally must be done by licensees, thereby guaranteeing a stable demand for jobs. The licensing process should be very tough, but fair, a meritocracy. I think the model should be “licensed professional societies” that other US occupations like actuaries, medical doctors, pharmacists, etc have. These orgs perform the functions of unions, in that they protect their workers by
1 limiting supply of new workers entering the field
2 legislating that particular tasks legally must be done by licensees, thereby guaranteeing a stable demand for jobs.

The licensing process should be very tough, but fair, a meritocracy.

]]> Techies - Shouldn't You Form a Union? http://blog.noslaves.com/techies-engineers-shouldnt-you-form-a-union/#comment-1970 Burton Leed Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:59:15 +0000 http://blog.noslaves.com/techies-engineers-shouldnt-you-form-a-union/#comment-1970 How to Justify and Create Collective Bargaining: Sites like No Slaves, Economic Populist should do some scientific polling on the question of forming Unions. Identify those who browse the site with 'Do you work in STEM?' then if so, 'Could you support a Union or Trade Group to speak for the Issues of STEM Workers'. Follow this question with specific questions on Immigration, Trade, Outsource Visas. If the poll meets the numeric levels of over 1200 random entries, the poll may be scientific. Scientific polling can justify the claims of EP, or Programmer's Guild. How to Justify and Create Collective Bargaining:

Sites like No Slaves, Economic Populist should do some scientific polling on the question of forming Unions. Identify those who browse the site with ‘Do you work in STEM?’ then if so, ‘Could you support a Union or Trade Group to speak for the Issues of STEM Workers’.

Follow this question with specific questions on Immigration, Trade,
Outsource Visas.

If the poll meets the numeric levels of over 1200 random entries,
the poll may be scientific. Scientific polling can justify the claims of EP, or Programmer’s Guild.

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