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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Per Newton's reporting, the CEO letter was an attempt to rewrite what the discussion dispute was actually about: not national politics, but diversity and hiring issues *at their actual workplace.* It unilaterally disbanded a worker-organized DEI committee! That's union-busting!
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As I understand it, the DEI committee was officially sanctioned by the company. I'd be ecstatic if Basecamp employees responded to its dissolution by engaging in real collective action, up to and including unionizing. But I'd also be surprised.
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