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They're still in Kurian's office, still streaming, and starting to get major media coverage: WaPo Wired

In my opinion this is one of the most important labor developments in the US in a while. Internationally politicized worker organization in the belly of the beast by traditionally un-unionizable PMCs.

e: finally arrested after 10 hours

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[–] AcidLeaves@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hard to do this without downplaying Palestinian experience, but to some level they're emphasizing the individual worker demands and not just running on sympathy for other people.

Yea, I think where it falls a bit short is that it's hard to get people on your side without also supporting and caring for the workers' other grievances like layoffs, benefits being cut, performance pressures, etc.

It's very similar to the PSL style of organizing where they hold big protests largely on social issues but they don't actually try to connect with the local communities and help them out materially. So they're capturing the support and attention of a lot of the advanced but do nothing for the moderate

Mhm. I'm not sure what the Alphabet union's line was, but they don't seem to have gotten very far. A lot of this is bootstrapping - can't make real material gains until you have enough workers on board, can't get enough workers on board without real material gains. So I'm sympathetic to the arguments for unit level organization.