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   Sabogato (they/them) (sabogato@sunbeam.city)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 21:37:53 JST Sabogato (they/them)

   Tech Workers' refusal to unionize is the reason the tech industry is in the state it is in. We are the only ones who know how to make all this tech work and we gave up our power to terrible people who've used that power to abuse the entire world.

   I hope we wisen up. Tech Workers of the World Rise up!

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 21:42:27 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @sabogato I think part of it is that almost no one in this industry has experience unionizing, because of how removed it is from the blue collar industries that typically are unionized, the youth of the industry, the fact that it grew and came into its own largely in a time when union power was at its lowest point and no one was unionizing (unions are on an upswing now), and because of the perception that white collar jobs, especially well-paid ones, "don't need to unionize." I certainly feel that a bit, it seems like e.g. if Bay Area tech workers were to unionize they'd end up the butt of so many jokes about privileged well-off tech workers having a tantrum or whatever