@git_pull_union

Hubbers working to make a better future for all workers at GitHub.

Joined August 2021
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Google contractors wanted to go on strike, AWU offered strike fund, they were all set to start tomorrow, within hours of letting management know, management backed down. To "organize big tech" we only need relatively small # of workers to be in the union to have a huge impact.
Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA)@AlphabetWorkers2 Jun 2022
BREAKING:Google Maps Worker Victory! Today, the Google Maps contract workers informed management that they planned to go on strike due to the unsafe working conditions imposed by the 6/6 RTO date. In less than 3hrs workers won a 90 day extension—this is the power of organizing.
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Manish@ManishEarth11 Apr 2022
i find it useful to look at this justification as well since the cost of living-based justification is crafted to cause cracks in solidarity (and breaks down quickly when you look at the actual numbers), so it's nice to contextualize it
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Manish@ManishEarth11 Apr 2022
there's some smoke and mirrors when you talk about market pay, too, since the companies *are* the market and it's all a game of numberwang (exploitation edition)
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Manish@ManishEarth11 Apr 2022
this is a good thread that talks about how the "cost of living based pay" isn't real (or good). it's also worth mentioning that another common justification in this space is "market based pay" and that's an even more direct statement of "we pay you what we can get away with"
git pull union@git_pull_union10 Apr 2022
Many tech companies, including GitHub, use their geographically distributed workforce as a way to steal wages from workers. They call it "location-based pay grades" and other such nonsense. But it's wrong. So we've written something you can share:
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Senior Oops Engineer@ReinH10 Apr 2022
periodic reminder that location-based pay has always been (and is even more now in the modern remote work era) a legal form of wage theft
git pull union@git_pull_union10 Apr 2022
Many tech companies, including GitHub, use their geographically distributed workforce as a way to steal wages from workers. They call it "location-based pay grades" and other such nonsense. But it's wrong. So we've written something you can share:
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