After watching execs talk about the #GoogleLayoffs, all I can really say is this:
If you are in tech you need a strong union.
If you are in tech you need a strong union.
If you are in tech you need a strong #union.
After seeing what happened at #twitter, after seeing yet another round of nonsense layoffs across so many good people at so many companies, we need unions and we need them yesterday.
If you are in a union already, build strength. We are going to need it.
Every worker in every industry deserves a union, and tech right now is having a clear demonstration of how our lack of unions hurts us.
I just heard an exec say that it was "unfortunate" that we couldn't fire people faster in other parts of the world because of labor protections. Sit with that for a moment.
In the US unions are one of our very very few tools to give us any chance at all.
We need strong unions to push back against this sort of callous insensitivity backed by unchecked greed.
@hrefna not much is ever said about online English tutors...big companies have sussed out how to use us to their benefit. Zero hours, considered self employed, low pay and no chance of unionisation as we are spread out globally with no way to organise. 4 years ago I had guaranteed hours at 22 ph.Now I'm allocated hours depending on what clients want at 12 dollars PH. Race to the bottom. I'm in Europe.many Asian students so timetabling works for me but lots of us teachers up at 4am to work