Charted: How American Tech Workers Feel About Joining a Union

How American Tech Workers Feel About Joining a Union

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American tech workers, along with lawyers and accountants, have some of the lowest rates of union membership in the country.

But in the last few years of ballooning layoffs, sentiments may be changing.

This graphic shows the percentage of U.S. tech employees that would join a union if their company had access to one. Data is sourced from Blind, which conducted an online survey of 1,901 verified tech professionals.

Which Tech Company Employees Are Likely to Join a Union?

Amongst the companies, union support appears to be highest at Intuit (financial software), General Motors, and Oracle (enterprise software).

Company Name	Likely	Unlikely
Intuit	94%	6%
General Motors	92%	8%
Oracle	85%	15%
Atlassian	85%	15%
Adobe	83%	17%
Qualcomm	83%	17%
LinkedIn	82%	18%
Dell	79%	21%
Capital One	78%	22%
Cisco	77%	23%
ByteDance	75%	25%
Intel Corporation	74%	26%
Splunk	73%	27%
Block	73%	27%
Visa	73%	27%
Stripe	73%	27%
Salesforce	72%	28%
NVIDIA	71%	29%
Amazon	70%	30%
Indeed.com	70%	30%
PayPal	69%	31%
Nordstrom	69%	31%
Meta	67%	33%
ServiceNow	64%	36%
Uber	64%	36%
Microsoft	63%	37%
Walmart	60%	40%
Snap	58%	42%
Rivian Automotive	58%	42%
DocuSign	55%	45%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	50%	50%
Apple	47%	53%
Tesla Motors	45%	55%
Google	40%	60%
Survey Average	67%	33%

On the other hand, Tesla, DocuSign, and Google employees have the least desire to join a union.

As it happens, over a thousand workers in North America already belong to the Alphabet Workers Union, which represents employees at Google and other subsidiaries like Waymo.

Meanwhile, Tesla has been involved in several controversies regarding unions. For example, in May 2024, a U.S. labor agency accused by Tesla of discouraging workers from creating a union at its Buffalo, NY plant.

However, on average 67% of those polled in the Blind survey said they were likely to join a union and 73% said that unions “mostly helped.”

When Blind asked tech workers why the industry’s union membership rate is so low compared to other jobs, the general sentiment indicated that tech employees are already well compensated for their jobs, without needing collective bargaining.

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