Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work
11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California, in preparation for a strike authorization vote. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Get four print issues and full access to our archive for just $20Israel’s Young Settler VanguardE. HaleviThe Making of the TeenagerLauren FadimanZohran Needs to Create Popular AssembliesGabriel HetlandBhaskar SunkaraA Half-Century of Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly CapitalSophina ClarkDaniel JudtInterview byAaron PetcoffA dramatic shift has taken place in the tech industry over the last several years. Industry leaders who once had a reputation as innovative forward thinkers are more familiar as misanthropic paranoiacs.
- ▪11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California, in preparation for a strike authorization vote. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Get four print issues and full access to our archive for just $20Israel’s Young Settler VanguardE.
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- ▪Industry leaders who once had a reputation as innovative forward thinkers are more familiar as misanthropic paranoiacs.
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August 06, 2026United StatesScience and TechnologyUnionsFacebook IconTwitter IconEmail IconPrint IconUnions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech WorkInterview withDan RussellMax BelascoTwo University of California tech workers explain their unionization process — and how unions can help recapture the original promise of tech being used to better people’s lives rather than make the worst people in the world ever richer.University Professional and Technical Employees members phone bank in their offices at UCLA on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California, in preparation for a strike authorization vote. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Get four print issues and full access to our archive for just $20Israel’s Young Settler VanguardE. A.
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