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by toomuchtodo 752 days ago
OpenAI employees should unionize. Org leadership is never going to be benevolent. Stop begging for permission to exercise rights and do something about it.

https://code-cwa.org/organize is only a suggestion, pick whichever org is most likely to provide you with the support and leverage needed to defend yourself from management in concert with the executive branch of the federal government.
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lostemptations5 752 days ago
Thought I hear this "call" year after year -- when HAS a tech company's employees unionized?

It seems hard to recall. Though it would be a great way to alter the power dynamic with management.

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hot_gril 749 days ago
There's this ongoing attempt at Google called Alphabet Workers Union. Instead of simply negotiating for higher pay, their goals were all over the place according to their website: https://web.archive.org/web/20220305061423/https://alphabetw... "We are BIPOC workers who fight against totalitarianism." "Our union of 800+ members strives to protect Alphabet workers, our global society, and our world. We promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice."

Today the site looks better, but still, you might wonder if Google planted them as a way to prevent a real union from forming.

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toomuchtodo 752 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionization_in_the_tech_secto...

Why wouldn't you hear this call year after year? It is a perpetual call, and while it will take years to move the needle, direction and velocity are what matter. I mean, would you hear about human rights in one year and that'd be the end of it? Definitely challenging with the individual exceptionalism mindset, despite the overwhelming data, but rarely is important work ever easy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40386097

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