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While it does certainly seem like Silicon Valley unions like the Alphabet Workers’ Union have a tendency to weigh in hot button issues, the ones I've seen are m
by Apocryphon 4y ago
While it does certainly seem like Silicon Valley unions like the Alphabet Workers’ Union have a tendency to weigh in hot button issues, the ones I've seen are more about protesting against management taking on defense or border control contracts, not culture war issues. Do you actually have cases to back that up? On the flip side, the Tech Workers Coalition for starters certainly weighed in on the Twitter layoffs.
https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2022/11/03/issue-16/ https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2022/11/03/issue-16/
- cat_plus_plus 4y agoWell, defense and border control contracts are good for employees' job security / wages while uncontrolled immigration could potentially hurt jobs and wages of existing workers. I understand that immigration also has benefits and humanitarian considerations and defense tech can be potentially misused. But if I pay $2K/year to join a labor union, I expect them to focus on protecting and improving my job and then I might separately get involved in other causes. Right now though I would gladly work on military tech to protect Ukraine and Taiwan rather than focusing on "US also has been bad sometimes".