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.
-
Show this thread
-
Pinboard Retweeted NC Raise Up
Here's tech workers organizing in 2014!https://twitter.com/RaiseUpfor15/status/527558162392809472 …
Pinboard added,
2 replies 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
Pinboard Retweeted Tech Workers Coalition
Unions were spreading like wildfire in 2015!https://twitter.com/techworkersco/status/641305330463322112 …
Pinboard added,
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Silicon Valley had a burgeoning labor movement in 2017! https://www.salon.com/2017/09/04/silicon-valleys-burgeoning-labor-movement/ … We were setting up a union to resist Trump! https://qz.com/916534/silicon-valley-tech-workers-are-talking-about-starting-their-first-union-in-2017-to-resist-trump/ …pic.twitter.com/pjsr8vv7BZ
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Pinboard Retweeted BuzzFeed News
Worker organizing efforts were "coalescing" last August at Google!https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1030349005497229312 …
Pinboard added,
BuzzFeed NewsVerified account @BuzzFeedNewsFollowing a series of crises at Google, disparate worker organizing efforts within the company are coalescing, part of a growing workers’ movement in the tech industry. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/google-dragonfly-maven-employee-protest-demands?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Pinboard Retweeted Jacobin
Unions were coming to tech, for real this time, in April of 2018.https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/984128921988808704 …
Pinboard added,
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
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
1 reply 0 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
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
4 replies 2 retweets 20 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @Pinboard
Are there historical examples of highly paid professions formally organizing?
8 replies 3 retweets 2 likes -
All major sportsball leagues are unionized
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
But they are also a weird animal in terms of exemptions from antitrust law
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.