giantofthenorth

@giantofthenorth@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is there a useful way for tech workers to express interest in a union?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s what I’ve done when attempting at my workplace via the postal workers union.

  Get in contact with an organizer, they are there to help guide you or who ever wants to be the main leader of this effort.

  I went through the AFL-CIO website aflcio.org/formaunion and filled out my information, during my major attempt it took half a week, though it could take a bit longer.

  You’ll get in contact with an organizer and they’ll get a rundown of your workplace and what it looks like.

  After that there’s about an hour’s worth of training to know your rights and what works for your union.

  Then you’ll be pretty much ready to go to start talking with coworkers to try and get an organizing committee (10% of your workplace) which will be your main coworkers who should be all about the idea, after that 10% then you’ll start convincing everyone in your workplace and soon after that collect signatures.

  Then you’ll go to an election, sadly I do not have much information to get beyond here as the movement fell apart in my workplace during signatures due to a weak organizing committee.

  Hope this helps ya out and if you want any additional information I’m happy to share, we need more unions especially in IT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is there a useful way for tech workers to express interest in a union?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve asked the same thing to my organizer and it was basically telecom is the closest to it under the AFL-CIO umbrella, and i believe he said they may end up getting an IT specific union once enough get unionized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now everyone must pay for someone else's vandalism.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Love that most of the world’s governments came together and said “collective punishment is bad, we should make it illegal during times of war” and shit like this can still fly within any first world country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most motorists want noise cameras installed to clamp down on loud cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  British people are insane. Why are you willingly asking for more government intervention in your daily lives for such a minor annoyance. Y’all do realize they will eventually be caught using this to spy on people.