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> It's strange to me that technology workers are seemingly unwilling to unionise and hold general strikes to protest these kinds of policies How would that imp
by msla 7y ago
> It's strange to me that technology workers are seemingly unwilling to unionise and hold general strikes to protest these kinds of policies
How would that impact hobbyist software? Am I going to be run out of my job for being a "scab" if I keep developing my hobbyist projects during a strike? (Historically, "scabs" got killed, of course.) How about if it's a strike I don't agree with? Even if there's some kind of voting process on whether to strike or not, which is itself fraught and open to abuses, nothing guarantees that majority rule will be just, and nothing guarantees that anything else will result in enough legitimacy to lead to collective action. (As in: "I didn't vote to strike, so I'm not going to.")