Paid Time Off MattersA (slow) progress report

A story about people trying to organize in high tech

In the magazine Jacobin. Many similarities with our own story: from illegally firing the first person who asks for more benefits for everybody to outsourcing the whole lab to get rid of the union (run away shop tactic).

A bit of anger - from Hand to Mouth by Linda Tirado

I recently read 'Hand to Mouth, Living in Bootstrap America', by Linda Tirado (2014). Below is what she writes on page 11. it is not that I agree we are/were not better paid than minimum wage but what causes the deep anger and frustration is the discrimination concerning the lack of 'benefits', the lack of respect that was initiated and is still perpetrated by companies like Microsoft and most high tech firms in the US toward their "temps'. Who remembers Bob Herbold and his despise for "useless fixed assets"? Unfortunately, the more things change...