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This is one of the real reasons that tech workers need something like a union. If we want to take responsibility for our work, and hold the corporations we work
by opnitro 8y ago
This is one of the real reasons that tech workers need something like a union. If we want to take responsibility for our work, and hold the corporations we work for the those values, then we'll need the power of collective bargaining.
- solidsnack9000 8y agoThis is not the role of unions at all, actually -- they aren't a tool to allow a skilled professionals to undertake political action and make decisions for everyone else. That's what political parties are for.
- opnitro 8y agoUnions aren't for exercising the political will of workers? What is it that the labor movement has achieved then? What did the strikes achieve? If not forcing those in control of the company to take seriously the demands of workers, then what else is a union for?
- ApolloFortyNine 8y agoSafe working conditions and better wages?
- opnitro 8y agoAnd are those not political goals? Many of the victories of the unions was getting those things enshrined in law. Our labor laws were not simply voted in, people had to struggle for them.
- solidsnack9000 8y agoUnions aren't for exercising the political will of workers? They aren't a one-stop shop for the political will of workers. It's like how we have different restaurants for different kinds of food and different times of day. China-censorship loving, military loving, and leftist Googlers all have some interests in common as working people; but the union would not function very well as a vehicle for those interests while simultaneously pushing the foreign policy goals of one or another of those groups.