[conspire] Organized labour in Big Tech [was something else]

[Ron]

Don Marti wrote on 2025-10-02 08:24:

> It's also a labor vs. capital thing -- the AI boom is part of the 
> reaction to the tech worker union movement.

I missed "the tech worker union movement".  A couple posts on a couple 
forums saying "why, we oughta..." in an almost wistful manner, that's it.

I've never, ever heard of a unionization vote at a tech company - any 
example?


> the next move by management was 
> to containerize and push more of the cargo handling to warehouses, which 
> are smaller workplaces that can be geographically isolated from the port 
> area.

And geographically closer to customers, and on *cheaper land*.


> Cargo handling became more efficient with containerization, but a 
> big part of the appeal for management was in reducing the number of 
> people working close together at the port where they could organize.

I think that multi-modal efficiency and cheaper land were overwhelming 
factors. Sure, management hates labour, but management also is adept at 
crushing unionization drives.



> When organized labor started to catch on at the "Big Tech" companies

Again, outside Amazon warehouses, which aren't really what I see as "Big 
*Tech*" and were mostly failures, where's the organized labour drive(s) 
happening?