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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Pinboard Retweeted NC Raise Up
Here's tech workers organizing in 2014!https://twitter.com/RaiseUpfor15/status/527558162392809472 …
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Pinboard Retweeted Tech Workers Coalition
Unions were spreading like wildfire in 2015!https://twitter.com/techworkersco/status/641305330463322112 …
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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
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Worker organizing efforts were "coalescing" last August at Google!https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1030349005497229312 …
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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 -
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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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Are there historical examples of highly paid professions formally organizing?
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Medicine and law, except they're gentry so we don't call it "organizing".
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They're the professions and it's an interesting model for computer programmers! There was a lot of talk about it at some point, or at the least a professional code of conduct like librarians have
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Meanwhile software engineering just carried on because engineering already was one of the original four professions. But then the gold rush mindset kicked in and regulation went the way of ethics...
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