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kometoday at 10:23 AM3 repliesview on HN

how the tech world is becoming trumpian-like is a funny thing to witness - try to unionize next time


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modo_mariotoday at 12:49 PM

>try to unionize next time

Amazon had a whole paper about how bringing migrants and diversity makes unionization less likely and successful. It's part of the point.

Also it's not just the US. Here in Europe it's the same. Hell the government spent it's money trough the employers org training Moroccans to become programmers to then bring em in. I knew a fair few programmers who believe this is all just for low skill low paying jobs as if paying better wages for those is impossible and as if those deserve to be undercut. The weird thing is how this kind of plainly rightwing economic rhetoric is often masquerading as left wing.

johnnyanmactoday at 11:24 AM

The only silver lining in this mess is that it does seem like this was finally the push for my industry to start seriously pushing for unions. Of course, corporate won't let it come easy but I only see momentum building now.

ponectortoday at 2:47 PM

Good luck unionizing together with offshore office in Bangalore.