Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Contract

Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by jhanschoo on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:24AM (#17352791)

It would be nice if the recent instances of employee pressure in Google and Microsoft are early signs of software workers organizing.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by jadedhacker on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:17AM (#17353001)

It's a sign of nascent change that springs from the grassroots. The only way we'll know for sure is if organizers appear and begin to succeed.

In the context of the child separation policy, some of my colleagues asked what can be done, just giving money didn't seem to be enough. I mentioned a general strike, and they didn't react like it was a crazy idea though unlikely to take hold since this openly fascist policy only affects non-white foreigners. Maybe things are changing though.

Spring forth cadres of the revolution! Your people need your leadership.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by rumcajz on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:46AM (#17353847)

It's not just software industry btw: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/...

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by oh_sigh on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:29AM (#17353051)

How would employees at Google or Microsoft benefit from unionizing?

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by blind_boy_grunt on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:34AM (#17353064)

The same way any other unionized employees do: higher wages, better benefits, collective bargaining, serious representation in the corporate hierarchy, better job security.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by briandear on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:17AM (#17353266)

And Google employees don’t already that? What better benefits could a Google possibly want? How much higher could their salaries go?

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by dagw on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @04:50AM (#17353625)

What better benefits could a Google possibly want?

More vacation time, more reasonable working hours, a more transparent process for promotions and raises, better paternity/maternity polices, a seat on the board and more say into how the company is run.

There is a lot more to collective bargaining than salaries.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by confounded on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:36AM (#17353074)

By being able to influence management decisions, like working on drone assasinations, forced child separation and imprisonment, etc. etc. ad nauseam.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by briandear on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:15AM (#17353258)

Organizing for what? Google employees are well paid, have exceptional benefits — why would they want to potentially destroy all that for collective bargaining? That’s ridiculous.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by t0astbread on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:48AM (#17353388)

Because they don't want to support the practises of their organization?

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