lol its still so stupid that ppl in the tech industry didn't want to unionize when they had all the power
RE: https://mastodon.social/@emaytch/116036998103007299
Fellow tech workers: The librarians are roasting us on Mastodon and we have no plausible defense
One thing I'm learning from making this post is that tech workers in Germany are actually doing pretty well on the unionization front
@mcc ha! I joined a union¹ when starting my first (tech) job, I'm un-roasted!
(But I don't do any union work, I just give them some money. And I wouldn't be surprised if I'm the only one in my company who is part of a union, so in reality I'm not really "unionizing" that much…)
¹technically a "Gewerkschaft", the German equivalent of a union
@mcc
well, it is merely a question of solidarity.
Our funding picture https://web.archive.org/web/20230531001836im_/https://freelens.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Jahrestreffen_1995_Steche-1.jpg
I'm the guy very bottom left and was 16.
Shortly after France built their union freelens and others too.
On the other hand - after all my cameras sank into South Pacific, I switched to writing fedi software and this might _not_ be a question of countries alone.
The solidarity in the tech sector is anywhere much lower than amongst journalists. Maybe this is due to the fact that old white valley people in chairs are not threatened directly by Kalashnikows pointed through the head or sinking boats. The tech sector thinks mostly it is the privileged sector and this is the opposite of, well, solidarity …
addendum #US people
we made a list to start a tech union once
co-founder of freelens union, Germany here:
build unions first and then defend
cause Yes We Can
