Facebook is laying off 11,000 workers

Amazon is laying of 10,000 workers

Twitter laid off 3,700 workers, half its workforce

Stripe laid off 1,100 workers

Shopify laid off 1,000 workers

Lyft laid off 700 workers

This is why tech workers need to unionize.

@rbreich I know unions help to protect individuals in the workforce and I empathize with all the people affected by these layoffs. But it feels like general support for unions has been eroded over the last several decades. So is there also a way to enumerate the benefits of unions for our economy? If companies like Twitter or Amazon had been unionized, how might that have positively affected the general public’s relationship with those companies? #notaneconomist #askinganexpert