Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that?::undefined

  • nivenkos@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Unions can’t stop layoffs - at best they can just change the order in which employees are laid off (First-in Last-out / seniority), I guess the process might make the company reconsider, but there’s no direct intervention.

    I’m a member of a union and went through layoffs.

    I think it’d only change if unions had power on the board / guaranteed share ownership, etc. as is the case in Germany (board representation with workers’ councils) and was proposed but rejected in Sweden (share ownership).