Organizing High-Tech Workers
Saturday, August 05, 2017, 4PM-6PM
Description
There is historical precedence for organizing workers in the tech industry – both blue-collar production workers and white-collar engineers and programmers. We will examine some of this history, and discuss what lessons we can take away, and how to apply them to current efforts.
Readings
Recommended
- Organizing High Tech: Unions & Their Future (Labor Research Review, 1986)
- Employee Organization in Silicon Valley: Networks, Ethnic Organizations, and New Unions (Journal of Labor and Employment Law, 2002)
- Collective Representation Among High-Tech Workers at Microsoft and Beyond (Industrial Relations, 2004)