Unionisation of Tech Talent - Is It Inevitable? By | Abhijit Bhaduri |Keynote speaker, Author and Columnist Studying labor laws and employment practices was uncool if you wanted to work in Big Tech. That is changing. Industrial Relations has been the neglected child of Human Resources professionals. Dealing with unions (particularly in India) was always portrayed as the equivalent of joining the Bomb Diffusion squad. The history of militant trade unions made fresh entrants avoid or minimise doing a stint where they needed to deal with union office bearers. I believe, it builds skills that are hard to hone in any other assignment. In the eighties, strikes and militant trade unions were part of the headlines every day in India. The Great Bombay Textile Strike was a textile strike called on 18 January 1982 by the mill workers of Mumbai under trade union leader Dutta Samant. The purpose of the strike was to obtain bonus and increase in wages. Nearly 250,000 workers of textile mills went on strike in Mumbai. The majority of the ... https://human-engineers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/GA-Abhi-1.png https://human-engineers.com/unionisation-of-tech-talent-is-it-inevitable/?feed_id=7441&_unique_id=60b763e3a3bdc https://human-engineers.com/unionisation-of-tech-talent-is-it-inevitable/?feed_id=7441&_unique_id=60b763e3a3bdc
