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Silicon Valley's Labor Uprising


Silicon Valley's Labor Uprising - In These Times

Employees of staffing companies are starting to revolt, however, ushering in what may be a new era of higher labor standards in the famous tech hub.

A New Kind of Labor Movement in Silicon Valley - The Atlantic

Some tech activists imagine a more sustained labor movement—if not a broad-based union, then at least some strong industrywide coalition, ...

Silicon Valley is primed for a worker uprising | Salon.com

Working at a startup is no longer as novel as it used to be. Rather, workers at Silicon Valley companies, big and small, white collar and blue ...

Bargaining with Silicon Valley - Dissent Magazine

Faced with a frightening narrative about the demise of unions and the collapse of the social compact amidst sweeping technological changes, progressive and ...

Silicon Valley revolt: meet the tech workers fighting their bosses over ...

Silicon Valley revolt: meet the tech workers fighting their bosses over Ice, censorship and racism · The Slack engineer who got thousands of ...

Silicon Valley Unions: How Labor Is Growing Roots in Big Tech

Hettie O'Brien at the New Statesman writes that “rank-and-file rebellion undermines the liberal optimism typically associated with Silicon ...

Silicon Valley deluged by health care workers' labor fights

A wave of labor disputes is hitting Silicon Valley's overburdened hospitals as health care workers reach their breaking point with pay and working conditions.

Silicon Valley Workers Have Had Enough - The New York Times

Others have argued that tech employees are too privileged to organize. Mike Solana, a venture capitalist, claimed that the union's members were ...

Tech unions in Silicon Valley have been rare. Here's why that's ...

It was the heyday of organized labor, but unions were strong in San Francisco and the East Bay, not the South Bay or Peninsula. That suited the ...

Silicon Valley's Anti-Unionism, Now With a Side of Class Warfare

The failure of tech workers to reach a single declarative union organization led many labor experts to conclude that Silicon Valley was simply ...

Silicon Valley Rising

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Social Justice Unions Claim Deep Roots in Silicon Valley - Reimagine!

The Santa Clara Valley labor movement took off in the 1880s as agribusiness boomed. Huge orchards of prunes, apricots, and other fruit flourished, and ...

Silicon Valley's Techno-Capitalists Have a Low-Wage Worker Revolt ...

Unionization is a momentous feat for any labor sector, and in Silicon Valley it's downright Herculean. California's hotbed of technological ...

Union Power Is Putting Pressure on Silicon Valley's Tech Giants

Where possible, Silicon Valley Rising has pushed for policies that would more broadly strengthen labor's position. In San Francisco the ...

The End of the Silicon Valley Myth - The Atlantic

The dramatic, multidimensional implosion of Meta; the nuclear train wreck of Elon Musk's Twitter; the momentous labor uprising against ...

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

Meet the Silicon Valley socialists who are pushing a tech worker uprising ... Driving the current protests against ICE and military contracts is a ...

Silicon Valley Rising - South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council

Low wage workers do their part to make Silicon Valley the most prosperous region in the world, yet they struggle every day to feed their families, pay their ...

The Class Struggle in Silicon Valley by Cory Doctorow

A generation ago, tech workers viewed themselves as billionaires-in-waiting, working extremely long hours at the expense of sleep and social life.

Growing Labor Movement Shakes Up Silicon Valley - KQED

A new labor campaign, Silicon Valley Rising, advocates for higher wages for service workers.

Where are all those tech workers going? A Silicon Valley exodus is ...

Silicon Valley is America's innovation capital, but lenient remote work policies and a spate of layoffs have fueled an exodus of workers and ...