Comment on Tech Workers Can Still Fight Silicon Valley’s Overlords

• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s like the entire white collar industry ot something. I think they think it’s beneath them, and they think they will be special.

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  • MadhuGururajan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Eh… having unions sounds good to me… a white collar worker. I am just not considered part of the labour class by blue collar workers. So it makes me feel isolated. Don’t be mistaken, we keyboard thumpers already fight corporate bullshit daily. Th e disdain is from blue collar workers.

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    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      . I am just not considered part of the labour class by blue collar workers.

      Unions can and still lead you to resources and help you unionize. You can’t blame blue collar workers.

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      • MadhuGururajan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I didn’t blame blue collar workers. I said I was isolated because even though both white collar and blue collar workers sell their labour for a living, somehow we are never accepted as real labour just because the elite among us make $500k a year for instance.

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  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My company will fire anyone who talks about unionizing. And with Republicans destroying the Labor protections once afforded by the government, that’s a really risky move to make.

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• chobeat@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If people stopped repeating this stuff, it would help

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Lol, no, it wouldn’t.

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    • chobeat@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I organize tech workers. The expectation that they are going to fight an uphill battle inhibits a lot of them and often it’s not the scenario they are faced with. Tech workers being skeptical of the possibility of unionizing their workplace is a mind virus that needs to be eradicated for anything to happen. If then they find hostility, there are endless means to win over their colleagues, but if you discourage them before even starting, nothing will ever change.

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    • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Lol, no, it wouldn’t.

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• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well it is starting over in the gaming industry. Hopefully it can snowball.

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