I remember an early Tech Solidarity meeting where a number of electricians joined us to talk about organizing. "What do you guys want?" they asked. The tech workers had no clear answer. "Well, a lot of us were getting electrocuted, so we started a union" the electricians said.
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High-end tech jobs are like college that never ends. People want their dean of students and codes of conduct and for everything to be ultimately fair and properly adjudicated by the administrators. It makes the workforce extraordinarily passive, as students ultimately are
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The tension between what US tech workplace activists say they want (diversity and inclusion) and their demands in practice (ideological conformity) is also a strong deterrent to meaningful collective action, something management at the big tech companies has noticed and embraced.
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people talk about shit they saw or heard at work all the time
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This is true... but do you want management or corporate involved? That's the big difference... once corporate and HR are involved, you could lose your job over something stupid.
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? People discuss what's going on all the time and on all lines of work when they're not occupied e.g. talking to customers.
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Ever been to a construction site or a shipyard? That particular aspect is not that alien at all. Arguably, it’s worse (YMMV).
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Construction sites will literally have political talk radio playing all day…
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