it’s a bit different: usually founders are in as much bullshit constraint as the workers. The power is all in the investors and the founders are just the boss clowns. The vast majority of them will fail, by design, leaving them burned out. They are not in the same position of workers materially, but psychologically they are not that far from a worker that wholeheartedly embraces the company mission and burns out because of the circus.

what’s your country?

Anticapitalism, and especially antineoliberalism, is not a monopoly of the left.

it’s the only place where capitalism does more good than harm for the average person at the moment.

the article is about workplaces where there’s little to none IRL interaction among workers, by design. Separation and remote work are one of the main challenges to organizing these days and you cannot dismiss them with a moralizing comment.

If you’re a descendant of German Jews or your relatives where somewhat involved in the holocaust, you pretty much get the citizenship automatically. There’s a lot of anti-zionist Israelis in Berlin

It’s a tech company not recognizing a union of tech workers, a dynamic which will impact the development of several pieces of critical software. I would say it belongs.

they got their headlines, so it works

they probably don’t want to be accountable for serious damage claims. They do it for people’s attention. To materially disrupt data center construction you need a lot more than a single action

yep, it’s one of the new chapters and it’s pretty active and growing fast. You should join.

you can volunteer in some alt-albor organization that supports unions externally, like Tech Workers Coalition: https://techworkerscoalition.org/

because unions are the wrong tool for the problem. If you’re unemployed, consider to reach out to WhatWeWill: https://wwwrise.org/

you can unionize with the rest of the workers. They are called “wall to wall unions” when you do not organize by department/profession but by company. In some countries they are the norm.

that’s why you do union organizing with organizers and not with edgy teenagers.

both coops and unionized companies operate within a capitalist structure and on the market (usually). Neither model can emancipate itself from its context. So I’m not sure about what aspect you expect to be different. And coops can be run with good governance where power structures are explicit, managed and democratically altered to reflect the values of the members. The case where you have few people controlling everything is a dysfunction, it’s not part of the model (and also can happen with unions).

are you thinking of a cooperative?

that’s where most of the tribute created by the petrodollar system and the military dominance goes to. The USA is the only country in the world allowed to print endless money thanks to the violence of its army. The tributes don’t flow from the core to the periphery but from the periphery to the center.

It’s a spin-off of TWC, now independent, focused on layoff support and advocacy: https://wwwrise.org/

Join Tech Workers Coalition, What We Will or any other tech alt-labor organization in your area. There are plenty of tech workers talking about unions.

First time I’ve seen Americans (Texans) at a buffet in a resort in Cancun. The way and the amount they were eating was scary as fuck