This CNN business article claims that "worker activism is reaching a fever pitch" but describes the opposite—how vocal organizers took a large severance payment from Google and moved on to lucrative (and presumably more fulfilling) jobs elsewhere.https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/01/tech/google-walkout-one-year-later-risk-takers/index.html …
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Unions were coming to tech, for real this time, in April of 2018.https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/984128921988808704 …
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Not much is certain about the future, but I can guarantee you a steady stream of articles for years to come about how tech workers are finally standing up from their very comfortable chairs and organizing
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The unequivocal success story (mentioned in a bunch of these stories) is service workers at the tech companies unionizing. Their hard work and success, against steep odds, is a remarkable contrast to the failure of even the mildest efforts to organize engineers and programmers
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