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Josh Simmons

All the teachers' strikes, the healthcare workers, the baristas, now screenwriters and actors, while drivers are bargaining with UPS under threat of strike, and unions emerge at my local bookstore, among local journalists, and now animators: gizmodo.com/cartoon-network-wa

Let's keep this rolling!

Labor is the strongest check we've got against the capital class, and can help us shift power dynamics toward outcomes on climate, healthcare, housing, and more.

#1U #Unions #Labor #Strike :solidarity:

22 Jul 2023 at 16:21 | Open on josh.tel
14 comments
Jordan (Damn Good Tech) 4hire

@josh I've been saying for a while we need a developer's union. It's no secret that big tech is abusive toward its workers. Good pay does not give a company the right to abuse someone. Can't you imagine if even 1% of the employees from Google, Amazon, Netflix, Meta, and Apple unionized?

22 Jul 2023 at 17:08 | Open on mastodon.social
Barry Schwartz 🫖

@damngoodtech @josh

A first step is to join the professional societies. IEEE in particular has taken on some union-like aspects. Not much, but some.

22 Jul 2023 at 17:28 | Open on masto.ai
Barry Schwartz 🫖

@damngoodtech @josh

I mean, for instance, I am on permanent disability now but have group dental through IEEE.

22 Jul 2023 at 17:30 | Open on masto.ai
Camilo

@chemoelectric @damngoodtech @josh What kind of facilities do either IEEE or ACM have for discussion?

22 Jul 2023 at 17:42 | Open on hachyderm.io
Barry Schwartz 🫖

@cam @damngoodtech @josh

I don’t know. I’m just saying you can buy insurance and such that your company doesn’t want to provide. It was controversial at first whether the professional society should take on such roles, you know. It’s the sort of thing unions exist to do.

22 Jul 2023 at 17:48 | Open on masto.ai
Random Nunes Parody

@damngoodtech @josh Lobby to get rid of the overtime exception. Treating computer techs and software engineers as exempt employees enables a lot of abuse. dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-shee

22 Jul 2023 at 17:34 | Open on mastodon.online
Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.

@damngoodtech @josh I'm a capitalist by training and trade. But, I liken capitalism to a cancer and unions to killer T-cells that attack the cancer.

22 Jul 2023 at 17:52 | Open on awscommunity.social
Donald Ball

@damngoodtech @josh You’re right, but 1% wouldn’t cut it. I can readily imagine a world where 1% unionized in those companies - it would be one in which a round of 1+% layoffs occurred.

22 Jul 2023 at 18:02 | Open on triangletoot.party
Ben Rosengart

@damngoodtech @josh It can happen. I think it starts with the retail employees, the moderators, data preeners, warehouse shleppers, AI trainers.

22 Jul 2023 at 19:18 | Open on tilde.zone
Enema Cowboy

@damngoodtech
Janet Ruhl wrote in The Programmer's Survival Guide (1988) that programmers should unionize.
@josh

22 Jul 2023 at 21:02 | Open on dotnet.social
Will

@josh This is heartening to see. Now, we just need all of the big tech workers to unionize and go on strike. I would love nothing more than to see the entirety of the system shutdown, even at the expense of my access to it.

22 Jul 2023 at 21:06 | Open on mastodon.social
Kali

@josh @BlackAzizAnansi RAIL STRIKE! RAIL STRIKE! I hope we can properly fuck the rail corpos

23 Jul 2023 at 6:18 | Open on indieweb.social
Josh Simmons

Oh, uh, my SoundCloud can be found over at union.place – a well moderated home for all labor-minded people on Fedi!

You can follow my alt – @josh@union.place – for a more concentrated feed of pro-worker goodness.

#1U #Unions #Labor #Strike #UnionPlace

23 Jul 2023 at 19:30 | Open on josh.tel
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