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before they can organize as workers, they need to have class consciousness, and actually working with other workers helps.
by pasquinelli 4y ago
before they can organize as workers, they need to have class consciousness, and actually working with other workers helps.
- lupire 4y agoDo you think maybe people, who work on computers at a computerized social communication company, have some way to communicate?
- pasquinelli 4y agoyeah, we see all the time how class consciousness has developed on twitter: a thoroughly false, utterly counterproductive class consciousness. it's not about being able to communicate, it's about being able to see yourself as a member of a class, with the same difficulties as the others, for the same reason, and with the ability to change things through collective action. so communist memes on the discord doesn't cut it. just talking about things online isn't going to put anyone in the frame of mind to be willing to take a risk for anyone, and there is risk in trying to get a union started. just talking online means you never reach people that aren't sure about forming or joining a union, but that could be convinced. or to respond to a snarky quip with a snarky quip: > Do you think maybe people, who work on computers at a computerized social communication company, have some way to communicate? i guess that's why tech is overwhelmingly unionized.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoTech has been working out of offices since the beginning. Your argument that remote work prevents that beggars the actual reality of history. I will also bet you $20 most of the unionizing going on now is conducted online.
- lupire 4y agoYou just said that WFH is why they aren't unionized. They weren't always WFH, especially going back before 2010.