Only through collective action and solidarity - unions - could tech workers hope to truly resist all the moral injuries of their bosses enshittification imperatives. No surprise then, that tech unions are on the rise:
https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union
But what is a little surprising - and very heartening! - is what happens when techies start to self-identify as *workers*: they come to understand that they share common cause with the *other* workers at the bottom of the tech stack.
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