The work culture at rich tech companies (people read something upsetting in the news and want to discuss and 'process' it on company time) is so alien from most people's experience of work that it makes me despair for ever finding common ground with the actual working class
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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 at tech companies want equal pay, equal hiring opportunity, and equal enablement regardless of race or gender, something tech is absolutely awful at. It's not some big secret what people are asking for.
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My experience was that people were all over the map trying to articulate what they wanted, besides nebulous notions of reform and justice. But even taking these three clear demands as given, you have to agree we've been remarkably ineffective at making it happen
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Such a strike contrast with Russian-speaking high-end tech crowd: there’s a large percentage of right wing minded people, they are not only not against organizing, but they want to strip few protections unions have
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this is why tech unions were hard for me to understand. My understanding started with seeing the movie Norma Rae (cotton mill), and the unionization is also to avoid deadly working conditions.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45CX8W9peTs …
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i think at the very least the game industry and their insane crunch time work requirements is a foreshadowing of what could happen to the rest of the tech industry, and is a good enough reason to want to get ahead of the game and start unionizing now.
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If you work making a todo app that users end up using to try and overthrow a government, you should discuss it with your colleagues! Similarly, I'd hope tradespeople building a torture chamber would have conversations about their final product.
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I couldn't agree with you more. But I think those discussions are better done outside official channels
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I don't get it, you are both complaining about them being too politically involved *and* too passive at the same time?
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Let's untangle: 1. No job lets you be politically active on work time. 2. Most ALSO don't cut workers slack when things are shit. 3. White dudes (so, most mgmt) don't know the diff bt actually political vs existing as non-white-dude trying to make the workplace not suck.
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