redhatworkers

@redhatworkers@union.place

Red Hat workers collective. We are organizing for fair working conditions.

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redhatworkers, to RedHat

We are happy to announce that Red Hat Czech is now unionized! :solidarity:

Red Hat Czech Workers Union is part of the @ict_odbory_ict_union sectoral union.

See the mission statement and contact details on the ICT Union website: https://ictunion.cz/en/workplace/red-hat-czech/

redhatworkers, to Unions

Good news today from the gamedev industry!

CD Project Red unionizes, see the details on their website: https://gamedevunion.pl/?page_id=29&lang=en

#UnionizeTech #UnionizeGameDev #Unions #GameDev

redhatworkers, to Unions

An amazing victory and good news for our French colleagues - French workers on sick leave now have the right to paid leaves! Congratulations @SolInfoNat and @SolidairesRedHat !

Read the whole thread for more context.

#Unions #FairPay #France #RedHat

redhatworkers, to random

The EU Pay Transparency Directive came into effect in June 2023, and the member states have three years to incorporate it into domestic law.

Key points:

  1. Pay ranges must always be disclosed in job ads.
  2. Companies cannot ask about previous or current pay.
  3. Companies cannot prohibit employees from disclosing their pay details.
  4. Employees can request information about their pay level, and average pay levels broken down by gender and category of workers doing the same or equal work.
redhatworkers,
  1. Companies must report average pay gaps between women and men annually. This information must be public.
  2. Companies must report to the workers' representatives on any gender pay gap in each category of workers doing the same or equal work.

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_21_1033

redhatworkers,

The Directive is mostly good news for workers, yet it has deficiencies:

  1. Pay audits are limited to companies with 250+ employees.
  2. Companies can define what "work of equal value" means.
  3. Refers to ‘workers representatives’ instead of trade unions, which opens a door to yellow unions and "representatives" appointed by the company.
redhatworkers,
  1. The Directive does not address other categories of pay discrimination, such as discrimination based on age, disability, migrant status, being LGBTQ+, and other forms.
  2. Pay information does not guarantee the ability to self-advocate for fair compensation. If the individual bargaining powers of employees are low, the benefits of learning how much the employees are underpaid are limited. Relevant read: https://hbr.org/2014/06/why-women-dont-negotiate-their-job-offers

#PayDiscrimination

redhatworkers,

Unionization and collective bargaining are associated with a dramatic increase in lifetime earnings for individuals, see this article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00197939221129261

They are also effective mechanisms to address a systematic issue of a gender pay gap, see the OECD report: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/eba5b91d-en/1/3/5/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/eba5b91d-en&

The Pay Transparency Directive is an imperfect step in the right direction.
Proper labor laws combined with #unionization are powerful tools against rising inequality in our world.

redhatworkers, to Unions

You can track all the ongoing strikes in the US with the Cornell ILR Labor Action Tracker. Sort by worker demands, industry, duration, and more: https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu

As of today, there are 24 ongoing strikes in 42 locations across the country.

#Solidarity #Strike #Unionize #Unions

redhatworkers, to RedHat

Today, 18th September, the process started some years ago and accelerated by layoffs in Spain will bring employee representatives to the country, with the elections happening today.

No matter who gets elected... the Red Hat Union Representative in Spain will become a reality to protect employee interests and use an Open approach to make it a better workplace.

🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️
#RedHat #RedHatSpain #Unions

redhatworkers, to random

Labor Notes is hosting a conference on October 7th in NYC on organizing in the tech industry! They've been connectors in the labor movement for 40 years.

Hundreds of tech organizers will share their strategies, such as:

  • organizers of the 2018 google walkout
  • leaders who organized and won concessions against the 2022 Twitter layoffs
  • a key player in the @kickstarterunited union drive

Support or invite others to this legendary event!

https://labornotes.org/techcon2023

#UnionizeTech

redhatworkers, to mentalhealth

A thread with some facts about mental health and well-being at work.

In 2022, Deloitte surveyed 2100 employees, managers, and C-Suite executives in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia as part of their Well-Being at Work Survey.

Some takeaways:

  • one-third of employees struggle with mental health and well-being
  • while executives are not exempt from mental health issues, they underestimate how much their employees are struggling

#UnionizeTech #MentalHealth #Unionize #Unions #RedHat

A graph is titled "The C-suite significantly underestimates how much employees are struggling with their well-being" The graph displays columns that represent the responses from employees and C-suite on four topics about well-being. Employees were asked to report their own well-being, C-suite were asked to assess their employees' well-being. According to the graph 89% of C-suite assessed their employees' physical well-being as excellent or good, but only 65% employees reported that about themselves. 84% of C-suite assessed their employees mental well-being as excellent or good, 59% of employees reported that about themselves. 84% of C-suite assessed their employees social well-being as excellent or good, 51% of employees reported that about themselves. 81% of C-suite assessed their employees' financial well-being as excellent or good, 40% of employees reported that about themselves. Source: Deloittle analytics In the lower-right corner "Deloittle Insights | deloitte.com/insights"

redhatworkers,
  • 63% of employees say they aren't able to take time off and disconnect from work
  • only 52% report that they “always” or “often” use all of their vacation time each year
  • only 48% move or exercise each day
  • only 47% take micro-breaks during the workday
  • only 45% get at least seven hours of sleep
  • only 43% have enough time for friends and family

Relevant read: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/leadership/employee-wellness-in-the-corporate-workplace.html

redhatworkers,

Deloitte's sample size was rather small and limited to only a few countries, so let's look at some other data.

According to the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) 2021, the prevalence of emotional burnout ("feeling emotionally exhausted by work often or always") is 18% among workers across the EU country members - from 6% in the Netherlands to a staggering 33% in Cyprus.

Relevant read: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2023/740078/IPOL_STU(2023)740078_EN.pdf

redhatworkers,

What about the tech sector?

Let's take a look at this survey: https://report.yerbo.co/ - 32644 respondents working in IT from 33 countries.

Takeaways:

  • 62% of respondents feel emotionally and physically drained
  • 56% cannot relax after the work day is over
  • 51% feel like they are achieving less than they should
  • 33% feel inefficient at their job
  • 27% don't see value or purpose in what they do
redhatworkers,

What causes burnout?

Among other things:

  • job content, complex or monotonous tasks
  • time pressure and work overload
  • difficult customers
  • job insecurity
  • lack of job autonomy
  • poor working time arrangements, lack of work-life balance, overtime
  • lack of opportunities for career progression
  • discrimination, harassment, bullying
  • surveillance at the workplace
  • algorithmic management
  • constant connectivity to work

Relevant read: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2023/740078/IPOL_STU(2023)740078_EN.pdf

redhatworkers,

Back to Deloitte's survey for a second.

Based on the data of this survey, the C-suite experiences workplace mental health issues, too, as mentioned before.

Be wary of empty commitments, though. While over 80% of C-suite executives describe themselves as health-savvy and proclaim a commitment to improving the well-being of the employees, less than 60% of employees say their company incorporates well-being into their workplace culture.

Relevant read: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/leadership/employee-wellness-in-the-corporate-workplace.html

redhatworkers,

Zero-state meditations and awareness workshops, commonly offered by companies as part of the benefit package, are all nice things, but they do not fix the underlying issue of an unsustainable, psychologically unhealthy work environment.

Well-being washing is a common symptom of a disconnect in C-suite perceptions of employee well-being compared to the employees themselves.

Prevention and long-term sustainability are crucial.

redhatworkers,

In practice, prevention means:

  1. Right to disconnect - limits on how and when workers can be contacted, a ban on communications after work hours
  2. Recognizing burnout as an occupational disease and offering extended paid sick leaves for employees diagnosed with it
  3. Flexible working where applicable, available to employees from day one
  4. Reduced workweek
  5. Extensive health coverage that includes mental health
  6. Equitable and transparent pay
redhatworkers,

(cont)
7. Public and transparent reporting well-being metrics across departments and roles:

  • average and median work hours across different roles and geos
  • overtime prevalence
  • PTO utilization
  • benefits usage
  • burnout levels
  • pay transparency

Transparency is the first step to accountability.

redhatworkers,

Many of these prevention means are pioneered by the trade unions.

In July 2017, representatives of Spanish AXA negotiated a new CBA with the Confederation of Workers' Commissions (CCOO), representing the largest share of the company's employees. The CBA recognized employees' right to turn off corporate phones, not answer work-related calls, or respond to work emails or communication outside their normal working hours.

Relevant read: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/article/2017/spain-axa-recognises-workers-right-to-turn-phones-off-out-of-working-hours

redhatworkers,

With the adoption of this policy, AXA became the first corporation in Spain to recognize this right. The Confederation of Workers' Commissions and another trade union, the Unión General de Trabajadores, have issued recommendations stressing the importance of digital disconnection and compliance with existing laws to foster work-life balance and prevent mental health issues arising from excessive remote work and constant connectivity.

redhatworkers,

#Unionization benefits all the workers, and tech needs it today more than anything.

#UnionizeTech #RedHat

redhatworkers, to Unions

Today is Labor Day for our American colleagues, and it's a perfect occasion to discuss reasons for unionization.

Some facts:
Workers' productivity has steadily grown in the past 45 years, yet their pay hasn't kept up with this increase. The workers generate more profits each year, but these profits do not return to workers proportionally to their productivity levels.

Relevant read: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

#Unions #Unionize #UnionizeTech #LaborDay #WorkersRights

redhatworkers,

Companies, on the other hand, experience growth in profit margins each year.

For example, the profit margins of US companies have reached a record-breaking 15.5% in 2022 -- the highest level since 1950. Where do these profits end up if they don't return to workers? Shareholders, CEOs, and other top-level corporate executives.

Relevant read: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-25/us-corporate-profits-soar-taking-margins-to-widest-since-1950

redhatworkers,

In 2020, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 351-to-1. From 1978 to 2020, the CEO pay base grew by 1322%. Typical worker's pay grew by 18.0% in the same timeframe.

Relevant read: https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2020/

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