Opinion: Unions in big tech are essential

Last year, Google promised attendance bonuses to data centre workers who risked their health to work in person during the height of the pandemic, only to rescind them once workers had returned. — Dreamstime/TNS

The past six months have been brutal for tech workers across the industry. Tens of thousands of our colleagues at Twitter, Meta, Amazon and other companies have been stripped of their livelihoods. Those who remain are subject to an increased pressure to deliver with fewer teammates to help do the work.

The recent actions by a handful of executives have made clear that tech workers are on the chopping block. If we want a better reality for ourselves and our colleagues, tech workers everywhere must unionise at an unprecedented scale.