This is the evaporative cooling model of fighting organized labor, and I'm fascinated with how well it works in tech
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The sign I look for in these articles is new names. Google has over 100K employees, so if workplace activism is really reaching a fever pitch, you would expect to hear from more than the dozen people who are always quoted in these stories. But you don't.
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Here's tech workers organizing in 2014!https://twitter.com/RaiseUpfor15/status/527558162392809472 …
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Here's Jesse Jackson coming in to unionize Silicon Valley in 2014!https://twitter.com/TeamsterDoug/status/542797363056631808 …
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One reason that unions aren’t reaching a fever pitch in tech is because tech labor forces are distributed between full-time employees and various contingent staffing agencies at close to a 1:1 ratio. This division functions as a hedge against unionizationhttps://medium.com/@wtfmitchel/organized-labor-shelters-af64a7c0d3c9 …
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