You Deserve a Tech Union

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Historical pieces:

Prescriptive vs Holistic technologies, as defined by Franklin, the plannee vs planner.
Luddites protesting new technology in their field, being replaced by large machines.
Every benefit we have now was done by unions.
Where does the violence come into play on each side? State-sanctioned massacres against protesters vs when the protesters violently refuse to be exploited.
Where does capital-strike come into play?
Collective action combines at the multi-union level to increase leverage.
Is tech industry too individualistic to realize solidarity?

Legal framework pieces:
national labor relations board
can you have unions of unions?
how are union orgs laid out?
how small can unions be?
who can form one?
how does the person/people forming unions get paid? are unions non-profits?

There Are No Accidents
find out about "class consciousness"
how related are the anti-trust laws being defanged?
how does Teamsters operate?
communes, cooperatives?

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