Seeing the bloody layoffs in Twitter this morning really make me feel that the workers union are necessary. Capitalists like Elon Musk can ‘force’/‘expect’ his workers to work 80 hours a week while they might get layoffs anytime is such an exploitative behavior. If the capitalist who owns the company can just do whatever they want to their employees, of course they would want the employees to sleep in the office while lay them off whenever they’re being considered as useless now, no matter what kind of contribution they have done to the company in the past. Consider that, the 40h/week labor time is not something the capitalists want, it’s the human rights fought by workers who want to have work life balance, in stead of working to death for adding more money to a billionaire’s pocket. Seriously, all workers in Tech companies should consider joining/creating the worker’s union. Even if you are top level executives, you should be supportive of the worker’s union. Just look at the executives at Twitter this time. #tech #twitter
Nah, union leaders would have a tons of money and you coding monkeys will be as poor as rednecks working on assembly lines.
We should, but unionization in the us is getting weaker and weaker(see SCOTUS) so it probably won't last long
If being in a union could get you more than you can get in the free market, you're probably not cut out for the tech world.
I almost spit my coffee out at ‘40 hrs/wk is a human right’. There seem to be lots of newly-minted “human rights” these days. Sure, they’re nice-to-haves, but faaaaar from being “rights”. Declaring trivial things like a 35-hour workweek to be “human rights” only serves to turn an important concept into a meaningless catchphrase.
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shut up… if you don’t like it, leave US.
And your suggestion for folks born/raised here? Not like I can just pack my bags are start a new life in Germany smh
Very on brand for Amzn culture 😂