Kit 🔻
@onrust@infosec.exchange  Â·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Here's the programme

Tentative Workshop Agenda 8:30–9:30AM ET / 2:30–3:30PM CEST – Reflecting on the Tech Lash Brief, 2–3 minute presentations from organizers from #NoTechforICE, No Tech for Apartheid, union and worker organizers within tech-ademia Open Q&A and discussion 9:30–10:30AM ET / 3:30–4:30PM CEST – Radical Histories of Collective Organizing in Computing A conversation with Joan Greenbaum, Computer People for Peace and Lucy Suchman, co-founder of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility 10:30–11:30AM ET / 4:30–5:30PM CEST – Small Group Discussion and Concluding Remarks Small group discussion, with parallel online and in-person discussions; focus on applying strategic reflections from panel discussions to strategies for collective action in computing in response to rising technofascism and austerity Report backs and concluding remarks
Tentative Workshop Agenda 8:30–9:30AM ET / 2:30–3:30PM CEST – Reflecting on the Tech Lash Brief, 2–3 minute presentations from organizers from #NoTechforICE, No Tech for Apartheid, union and worker organizers within tech-ademia Open Q&A and discussion 9:30–10:30AM ET / 3:30–4:30PM CEST – Radical Histories of Collective Organizing in Computing A conversation with Joan Greenbaum, Computer People for Peace and Lucy Suchman, co-founder of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility 10:30–11:30AM ET / 4:30–5:30PM CEST – Small Group Discussion and Concluding Remarks Small group discussion, with parallel online and in-person discussions; focus on applying strategic reflections from panel discussions to strategies for collective action in computing in response to rising technofascism and austerity Report backs and concluding remarks
Tentative Workshop Agenda 8:30–9:30AM ET / 2:30–3:30PM CEST – Reflecting on the Tech Lash Brief, 2–3 minute presentations from organizers from #NoTechforICE, No Tech for Apartheid, union and worker organizers within tech-ademia Open Q&A and discussion 9:30–10:30AM ET / 3:30–4:30PM CEST – Radical Histories of Collective Organizing in Computing A conversation with Joan Greenbaum, Computer People for Peace and Lucy Suchman, co-founder of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility 10:30–11:30AM ET / 4:30–5:30PM CEST – Small Group Discussion and Concluding Remarks Small group discussion, with parallel online and in-person discussions; focus on applying strategic reflections from panel discussions to strategies for collective action in computing in response to rising technofascism and austerity Report backs and concluding remarks
Kit 🔻
@onrust@infosec.exchange replied  Â·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

JS Tan from Collective Action in Tech argues that actions in tech peaked in 2019/2020, then the numbers slowly dropped

WHy? Not because of lack of interest. Rather, it's because many tech workers shifted from individual actions to union work -- which is slower, takes more work, involves more 1-on-1s, etc

Results will come in the longer term, not in a matter of days or weeks

#TechLashTechFash
Kit 🔻
@onrust@infosec.exchange replied  Â·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

2022 was a key turning point for tech labour, Tan states

A Elon Musk took over Twitter, they fired 80% of workers ... without the platform going down.

Employers took note. They took Musk ruthlessness as a model.

Instead of the targeted firings of, for example, union organisers and whistleblowers, bosses now felt at liberty to fire anyone who's remotely in the proximity of organising

#TechLashTechFash