Silicon Valley takes a right turn

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"Among Ferenstein’s findings: a minority, 29 percent, of tech company founders described labor unions as “good,” compared to 73 percent of Democrats."

Are these feelings shared by tech-sector workers at-large? Unions are responsible for so many improvements in workplace rights, and have traditionally been at the forefront of working and middle class struggles!

It's incredibly depressing if true. The labor movement gave us weekends and the 8 hour day. While not every union is positive, unions as a concept are the natural counterbalance to business interests, protecting individual worker rights.

I wonder, though, if it's simply a matter of modernization. What would a 21st century union look like? Are there examples to look to?

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