Some of the best paying jobs are in hi-tech, and without a doubt, some of the very deepest of financial pockets are also in the hi-tech domain. Yet, hi-tech companies that have plenty of capital to do right by those that they employ, and should therefore have the easy capacity to accommodate the unionization of their workforce, including, most importantly, their white collar workers, should they be so inclined, have not done so. In fact, those hi-tech companies that utilize janitorial services, kitchen services, and the like have a very strong tendency not to work with unions even in these relatively modest paying jobs, but rather prefer to engage such through the subcontracting of that work, so that the pay, and thereby the unionization or not, of those janitorial and kitchen workers, is left as the responsibility of that party who has the subcontract. Further, when it comes to the mass production of products such as phones, tablets, game stations, and the like, these are typically outsourced to a foreign country, thereby freezing out domestic employment for the construction of these products, and in addition, those that are doing the real assembly work, are not direct employees to that hi-tech company, but rather are typically considered to be employees, if that, of the subcontractor, which provides those hi-tech companies with the distancing so needed, to disavow their involvement, positive or negative, in the pay of, or the benefits of, those that are not thereby directly working for them.
While many a white collar worker, seems unconcerned about any of this, because their pay is usually quite good, and the benefits that go with that pay, usually being quite lucrative as well; they seem not to understand that in a global economy, in which the United States surely does not have a patent upon the reasoned intelligence and education so needed to be a member in good standing for hi-tech white collar desk work, have place themselves in the rather unenviable position of trusting that their management will forever have them foremost in their respective minds, when quite clearly there isn't any real good reason to expect management to do anything of that sort. After all, if the work that is being done domestically by white collar workers, currently, can be replicated overseas, even at some degree of reduced efficiency, but at a price point which is half the cost, or even less; then these hi-tech companies are going to, if not having done already, inevitably going to avail themselves of that cost saving, at the express loss of opportunity and employment for those domestic white collar workers.
As they say, when it comes to unionization, the party to go after, should always be that specific party that has the capacity to readily pay, and the leading hi-tech companies in America, have bucket loads upon bucket loads of money, of which, the lion's share of the profits and money so being made is certainly not going to their blue collar workers or subcontractors; nor is it even going to their privileged white collar workers, who though paid well, seem not to somehow comprehend that they are, in many ways, extremely underpaid in comparison to the mountains of money so being minted by their employer, each and every day. In truth, the real winners are the elite and financiers of those hi-tech companies, the richest of the richest of people, who have made it their point and principle not to accept unionization and to do all that they can to stop or undercut such, because in their selfish, self-serving viewpoint, they are the master class, the barons of the hi-tech world, and therefore all others are beneath them and clearly exist just to serve them.