LimeleafThe Limeleaf Podcast Episode 8: 2025 in Review, and Our Plans for 2026
https://limeleaf.coop/podcast/episode-08/
#applycoop #BlueskyDirectory #ATProtocol #CoopHosting #TechUnion
Blain Smith
grechawIT managers should be crying out for unions. As a whole they are so misguided and incompetent that an agreement with labor would lift the whole boat.
Broad brush but speaking with 30 years experience in the field... AI will solve absolutely nothing for the practice of software engineering.
CHOCCY MALK™ 
You Deserve a Tech Union!! This book is amazing and I can’t recommend the read enough.
#techunion #union #unionstrong
jenny (phire) (@[email protected])
@[email protected] This is a much more complex topic than I can address in one post and I would recommend reading https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/. In brief I’ll just say that the union IS the employees, and while they can be corrupted by bureaucracy like any group of humans it is fundamentally not the same kind of power structure as management. Legislating “optional” unions is a key strategy in how anti-labour movements weaken labour power by intentionally creating classes of workers and divisions.
IG Metall BerlinHello again, here is a little recap of recent activities, we published in december.
https://www.igmetall-berlin.de/english-info/news/article/recently-at-it-metall
pchestek
Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnouthttps://prospecttradeunion.cmail20.com/t/d-l-ekudyty-dikkkidhkr-h/
gender equality in tech survey
you do not need to be a member to fill this out, if interested
(but you could become one anyway 😉)
toolbear#🪧Ethan Marcotte's announcement for YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION:
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/you-deserve-a-tech-union-book/
Hello again @beep. My January picket fell through; however, I organized my thoughts into a draft outline and a patient friend and Netflix employee let me practice on them. Progress! Rescheduling to Leap Day is giving me a good feeling ✨
Thanks for your book. I'm 50% finished with my first read.When I learned about your book it was the droplet that tipped me into action 🙏
If you're a Netflix employee and are comfortable connecting me with either the Trans or LGBTQ ERGs regarding a collective action thing, please reply or DM.
I would like to discuss a visit to Los Gatos campus on Leap Day (Thu, Feb 29th, 2024) to talk with anyone interested about Netflix workers forming a Tech Union. I'll give you a copy of Ethan Marcotte's book if you give me an assist getting in touch with an ERG representative ✨
https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union-ethan-marcotte/20400532?ean=9781952616600
@toolbear
"Building a booth" turned into "build a Little Free Library" that I can transport with me (probably sans mounting post, i.e just the birdhouse for books part and set that on a folding table).
I've a week and a day to achieve my goal of picketing outside #Netflix in January this year to try and inspire my former coworkers to consider forming a workers union.
Today's tasks: sand and stain the wood bits of my Little Free Library kit.
