Category Archives: Labor

How a feminist security engineer helped kick off this wave of tech worker activism

Leigh Honeywell, a security engineer who was working at Slack during the election in November 2016, felt a call to action. (Read at Fast Company)

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How a socialist coder became a voice for engineers standing up to management

Bjorn Westergard was working as a programmer at Lanetix, a CRM software maker, when concern about poor working conditions led him to start organizing his fellow employees. (Fast Company)

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How tech workers became activists, leading a resistance movement that is shaking up Silicon Valley

Employees at Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies are discovering their power to bend the trajectory of multibillion-dollar corporations. (Fast Company)

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Meet the Silicon Valley socialists who are pushing a tech worker uprising

Driving the current protests against ICE and military contracts is a larger movement to transfer power from billionaires to workers and communities. (Read on Fast Company)

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