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What concrete interests would you like such a union to protect? Should a strike happen if devs are told to use Claude, or should a strike happen if devs aren't

• mbgerring 8mo ago
  Here are some easy ones: - End H1B abuse and demand limits on offshoring - Compensation transparency - “Value capture,” as called out in the article. If new tools make engineers 10x more productive, that should be reflected in compensation - End employment law workarounds like “unlimited PTO,” where your PTO is still limited in practice, but it’s not a defined or accruing benefit - Protection against dilution of equity for employees - A seat at the table for workers, not just managers, in the event of layoffs - Professional ethics and whistleblower protections. Legally-protected strikes if workers decide to refuse on pursuing an ethically or legally dubious product or feature. I could go on. There are a lot of abuses we put up with because of relatively high salaries, and it is now abundantly clear that the billionaire capital-owning class is dead set on devaluing the work we do to “reduce labor costs.” We can decide not to go along with that.