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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Yeah I see that. Though I think a) unions introduce an intrinsic and healthy distrust of “Management.” And b) so-called blue collar workers are also extremely defensive of their employers. Look no further than coal (or steel) industry.
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To put some nuance as both a tech worker myself at time and son of a steel worker, there’s distrust of middle management, but also usually an aggressive defensiveness of job/employer writ large - not dissimilar from tech workers tbh
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I'd be interested in hearing more about this comparison, since you have a foot in both worlds. My experience (direct and through parents) of jobs was always service work, McJobs, or stuff like low-wage warehouse labor, never a unionized industry
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I agree with this. Way too many tech workers organizing is quashed by going through official channels. I think it succeeded at Glitch because we had a diverse workforce that didn’t trust those channels already.
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