Resistance from the tech sector

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• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Solid post from Drew, agree with everything there.

  He mentions doing your best to join in your local communities with like minded folk. Here’s a good guide on how and where those folk might be to join up with.

  And if you follow his advice to unionize, I highly recommend the IWW). They’ll help you form a grassroots union that’s directly controlled by you and your coworkers. And they’ll help you no matter what kind of job you have! Beefing it up is one of the best things we can do to resist.

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  • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve been saying this for such a long time, the tech industry needs unions. It also needs crowd sourced legal assistance as well because it isn’t going to be easy. They’ll fire of course at first despite being illegal, then they’ll want migrants that they can threaten with deportation if they don’t comply. Even if Trump goes away, unions will be necessary to keep corporations accountable.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It also needs crowd sourced legal assistance

      Basically any union in Germany has access to an army of lawyers, your dues double as legal insurance covering anything related to work and welfare.

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    • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How about a tech cooperative ?

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    • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t support sabotage for the time being

      What a wild goddamn thing to say when US citizen children with cancer are being rounded up and deported to countries they’ve never lived in. Please, share. Where have you drawn the line?

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    • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No one was talking about sabotage

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  my tech department recently unionized, its great

  one of the best things about it is enforcing the “other duties as required” and setting a hard limit on what that means, management has to accept it and they hate that shit

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    management has to accept it

    Do they have to accept it by law? I’m realizing I don’t really understand how unions work. What is it that actually transfers the power from the company to the workers just by unionizing?

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    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Laws obv vary by country, but in the US, a corporation is legally required to recognize and bargain with a union if over 30% of their employees choose to unionize.

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