These campaigns are signs of that bearing fruit. Conrad also says he thinks it's significant that the high-tech workers considering a union are those who handle customer orders and complaints on the telephone. As you get older, your view changes a little bit. You're not, perhaps, as willing to work 80 and 90 hours a week, every week. Benefits start looking more important to you when you raise a family.
Most people start thinking more about job security.
And job hopping seems less attractive. If people do have mobility and can move somewhere else, they're more likely to do so than to stay and fight. Since the demand for their services is high, they've got the leverage, the bargaining power on many issues without a union. The pure economics of it gives them the power. The brotherhood of techies The typical tech worker isn't the prototypical union member, either, Conrad says.