#techlabor — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #techlabor, aggregated by home.social.
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The history of the Mapbox Workers Union is an *incredibly* important tech labor story; I’m so glad Clarissa Redwine is working to tell it.
If you haven’t already backed the campaign, check it out! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clarissaredwine/mapbox-workers-union-podcast
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For anyone attending Take Back Tech 3 in Atlanta this weekend, a colleague just let me know they’re running a session about building worker power in the semiconductor industry.
Conference: https://www.takebacktech.com/
Session info: https://chipscommunitiesunited.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Take-Back-Tech-CCU-Panel-Adv4-1.pdf
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The workers at Kickstarter United, one of the tech industry’s first unions, are in a tough contract fight, and they’re holding a virtual rally TOMORROW. Here’s the RSVP link: https://bit.ly/ksru-rally
Show up if you can! If they win a strong contract with AI protections and a 32-hour work week, that only helps the rest of us 💖
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I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too.
Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same:
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refresh-a-new-look-for-you-deserve-a-tech-union/
#YDATUbook #books #bookstodon #blogging #labor #TechLabor #unions #TechUnions #1u
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“Today, Alphabet Workers Union-CWA members on the Google Help team secured a first collective contract with Google vendor Accenture, becoming the first group of AWU-CWA represented workers to bargain a collective contract and only the second group of Google office workers ever to do so.”
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The New York Times Tech Guild is officially on strike: washingtonpost.com/style/media... #unions #TechUnions #TechLabor #1u@[email protected]
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The New York Times Tech Guild is officially on strike: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/11/04/new-york-times-tech-strike-walkout/
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“The Tech Guild says Times management bargained for only seven hours in September, what they considered insufficient to reaching a deal.”
Some good coverage from @washingtonpost on the @NYTGuildTech’s strike threat: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/23/new-york-times-tech-guild-strike/
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Last year, I wrote a book called YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION; several months later, my publisher decided to close its doors.
This is a post about what happens next: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/reacquired/