Organizers have unionized 5,000 contract workers at Apple, Facebook, Yahoo
This is a bit misleading.  Union power is putting pressure on service economy companies which in turn service tech companies.<p>Tech workers are not unionizing -and I can&#x27;t imagine they would, given their pay compared to other sectors.  I could see an AMA type organization perhaps.<p>On the other hand, unfortunately, companies no longer staff vertically.  When they can outsource their non core competencies they do.  They don&#x27;t want to be the IBMs and Xeroxes of yore.  They want to remain nimble.<p>A famous example was MS&#x27;s front line IT staff managing Windows clients being contractors.  So they hired contractors to manage their own core product internally!!