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If you are in tech, then it is time to unionize.fyi ✊

> The tech industry is a runaway train, and if we don’t do something soon, we’re going to get run over. [..] it’s all going to keep getting worse unless we take a stand. #Unionizing isn’t just a nice idea - it’s a necessity.

> So let’s do what hackers do best: let’s disrupt. [..] Let’s take back our industry, take back our jobs, and take back our futures.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

unionize.fyiUnionize.fyiIt's time to escape the Burnout Machine.

#Amazon accused of using #algorithms to push #warehouse workers to breaking point
Amazon has used tricks, algorithms, and #surveillance to discourage warehouse employees from #unionizing
"Weaponizing the Workplace: How Algorithmic Management Shaped Amazon's Antiunion Campaign in Bessemer, Alabama," was conducted by Teke Wiggin, a researcher at Northwestern University in the US. It's worth reading the full write-up if you have time; we'll summarize some of it here:
theregister.com/2025/03/18/ama

The Register · Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking pointBy Thomas Claburn

"In this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses unionizing Whole Foods workers VS. Amazon and Trump and the contradictions, dangers, and global retaliation of the new administration's tariff program. The show's second half features an interview with political scientist Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III on the China-U.S. competition: its costs, the stakes, and why the U.S. is losing."—Democracy at Work

youtu.be/mm1Li2JxBHE?feature=s

Economic Update: U.S. Policy toward China: A Failing Effort to Contain Historic Change

@leobm @rbreich The loss in purchasing power is untenable, I’m retired on a fixed income but support raising the minimum wage to at least $15, but organizing and is the only real way to improve wages. Back in ‘68, I think that CEO’s made 22 times the amount paid to their workers, but now it’s closer to 225, iirc