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Re:The Tech Revolt by jbob2000 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:58PM (#18983525)
Big companies have this thing called “segregation of duties” which protects the company from organized labour. You can organize all you want, but the job has been cut up in to so many pieces, it’s easy to replace whoever forms a union.
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Re:The Tech Revolt by hydrogenglow on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:30PM (#19057590)
It'd be hard for someone like a Google to function well if their software engineers all walked, regardless of how they are split up across departments. This kind of technical talent is extremely hard to find, making it to more difficult for the company to replace them if they do get fired for forming a union.
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Re:The Tech Revolt by ForHackernews on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:19AM (#18987148)
That's why solidarity mattered, historically.
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Re:The Tech Revolt by jbob2000 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @11:58AM (#18990422)
Can't have solidarity if you coworkers all speak different languages than you.
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