News Jun 3, 2022 at 3:21 pm

PayUp Passes, Washington Protects Outdoor Workers, and More Labor News

When temperatures reach 89 degrees or higher, the law now requires bosses to give outdoor workers cool water, shade, and cool-down breaks. United Farm Workers

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1

Musk’s delivery is terrible as usual, but asking execs and office types to come to work where frontline and factory workers…well, never left, is a solidarity move in my book. Imma guess off-site workers skew white and economically privileged compared to your maintenance, security, lunchroom and factory floor workers. Also, can we stop giving Trump 2.0 the microphone?

2

Just for kicks, by what practicality, metrics, and logistics could say, a lead program manager at Microsoft, be unionized?

(Rule #2: Don't take Slog staffers seriously.)

3

musk'll take care of that
missing mic thing too, Ttm

tweet tweet
tweeterbuggerers

4

wow. One Nation under Unions
the 1%'ll Never Allow it it's
Gotta be Communism!

'make 'em Fight
each Other!
Not US!'
--1%.

5

Speaking of unions...

http://www.pnwguild.org/contracts

Weird that The Stranger isn't part of that list. Ah well, do as I say, not as I do I guess.

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@2 -- Program managers would be part of a professional union, similar to the one for Boeing engineers. Just to back up here, software companies have different people doing different things, and I could see various unions, or one giant umbrella for everyone (except perhaps some in management and sales). If there is one big union, then program managers would certainly be part of it*. But I could also see different unions. For example, the test engineers could form one, as would the developers, or the support staff. There are fewer program managers, so they would be a smaller union, and more likely to join one of the other unions, instead of creating their own. But it does seem possible, especially in a big company like Microsoft.

I'm pretty sure that most unionization efforts for tech workers are pretty broad, so the program managers would join the same union as the testers, developers, support staff, etc. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionization_in_the_tech_sector

Program managers manage projects -- they don't hire and fire people. They aren't really "management" in the classic worker/management sense.


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