3 years ago

Category: Business, Security, Microsoft, Infrastructure, artificial-intelligence

Over the last decade, technology companies have been easing past traditional oil and gas conglomerates to become the wealthiest industry in the world. And now there’s a growing trend of tech workers coming together to call for greater unionization in this sector. This is moving beyond petitions and signed letters from staff, to increased walkouts, employee resource groups, and even formal trade unions.

So today we reflect on the growing mobilization of people in tech, and try to predict where it’s headed.

In the minds of these Google employees, adding muscle to a war machine could be viewed as doing evil, and they were complicit in this direction (Google declined to interviewed for this story, though provided written commentary and associated resources).