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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
What's a 'tech lash'? 
Tech lash / Tech fascism workshop starts with some reflections from #NoTechforICE, No Tech for Apartheid, union and worker organizers within tech-ademia
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
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
Revenge against remote work is part of the tech fash, suggest Daniel Greene
Workers were considered to have gained too much freedom, which had to be crushed
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