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RE: Survey Reflects U.S. Tech worker Angst
- To: Elaine <http://www.hotmail.com/~et>
- Subject: RE: Survey Reflects U.S. Tech worker Angst
- From: Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:15:26 -0800 (PST)
--- Elaine <http://www.hotmail.com/~et> wrote:
> At least it says techs are becoming a political force. They're
> educated, and they vote. A good sign. I remember in the early 80's
> when I talked to people about unionizing programming they laughed in
> my face. Said they were all high class professionals and didn't need
> to organize. Goes to show, you should never get too snooty....
Yeah. I used to be involved in CPU (Computer Programmers Union), but
the guy (Michael Stack) dropped the project in 1994 & 1995, mainly
because so few programmers were interested.
Oh, well.