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the labor movement really needs to get beyond this stereotype that it is to lift all these hunched poor little downtrodden suppliants out of poverty. workers who have successfully organized are not pitiful schlubs, and their affluence is a testament to the success of their organizing, not its triviality. political interests of the labor class just are not the same as those of capital, and therefore its methods and ai…
one thing that i've been repeating for years now is that if you want tech to organize, unions need to sell themselves differently. unions in the past are portrayed as remove physical dangers, limiting to reasonable hours and fair wages. but tech workers already have that stuff, so they don't see an upside. codetermination (getting workers on the board), four day work weeks, full-time remote, sabbaticals, open source…
Re: The Brief Origins of May Day
#211great list. another thing to add, credentialing so we can stop the leetcode gating at the interview stage.