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Laid-off techies face 'sense of impending doom' with job cuts at highest since dot-com crash (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

2000, 2008, 2023: The boom-bust cycle is a constituent feature of capitalism.

Tech workers, the best time to unionize was 15 years ago; the second-best time is now.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

second-best time is now

Which is why big companies (incl. big tech) are going all-out to remove the practical ability, or even the legal ability, to do so. ex: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/10/starbucks-trader-joes-spacex-challenge-labor-board

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Worse still, organizations that we thought were our allies are now showing their true colors: Why Is the ACLU Waging Class Warfare?

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