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Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000-a-year package with a mixture of anger and admiration
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
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Engineers are among the most atomized groups of workers I’ve ever interacted with. So many of them genuinely believe that they’re the smartest in the room, not matter who is in the room with them or what the topic is, and they believe they deserve more than anyone else. I’ve been working on radicalizing one of my engineer friends for close to a decade and the most I’ve gotten him to do is admit that things could be better. That said, my pops is also an engineer, and he’s an old school socialist, been supporting Cuba since the 60s, and is radical enough I can’t share some of his perspectives here and feel safe, so it is possible for engineers to have class consciousness. It might be harder for those who didn’t grow up subsistence farm laborers like my pops though…