> Software companies should be able to hire and fire.
Almost every company in every industry makes this dubious claim. Then we rediscover the benefits of team knowledge and stability.
> We often need to have 24/7 oncall
This feels completely orthogonal to the discussion at hand, nobody is claiming that a union will somehow make doing on-call impossible. Many other professions that do have unions, have an on-call analog.
> Software companies should be able to hire and fire.
Almost every company in every industry makes this dubious claim. Then we rediscover the benefits of team knowledge and stability.
> We often need to have 24/7 oncall
This feels completely orthogonal to the discussion at hand, nobody is claiming that a union will somehow make doing on-call impossible. Many other professions that do have unions, have an on-call analog.