Category Archives: Labor
By going public, dissidents at Google will face some huge risks
Publicly opposing an employer could expose workers to retribution from within and without–and to a big financial hit. (Read more on Fast Company)
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)
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)
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)
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)