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  • hylaride 2 minutes ago

    This is essentially a story about front-line traditional desktop support/sysadmins at a public university.

    It's not going to be the same story at much higher paid shops where workers often have equity, good benefits, and the market has provided access to other jobs if you lose yours (in my experience, there are still shortages of qualified and competent engineers).

    I would like a different method to deal with the pitfalls, but the politics, drama, overhead, and costs of unionization just don't interest me. I'm not interested in being at one job for life.

  • Plasmoid 3 minutes ago

    My all for these is always the same. I just want to see how this union would work, specifically.

    Don't compare it to other unions or say it could be like X. Just write a few hundred words on what it would actually be like.

  • pewpewlaser 4 minutes ago

    Was part of the frontline effort to get our colleagues into UPTE. As we move towards AI automation, we need to make sure that workers have a seat at the table when we impact our students, patients, and our research across the state.

  • jjtheblunt a minute ago

    from the end of the article, which is an interview transcript, and is essentially self promotional marketing by the people below...

    CONTRIBUTORS

    Dan Russell is president and chief negotiator of the University Professional and Technical Employees–Communications Workers of America Local 9119.

    Max Belasco is a University of California, Los Angeles School of Law business systems analyst 3 and chapter cochair of University Professional and Technical Employees Los Angeles chapter.

    Aaron Petcoff is a socialist activist who lives in Brooklyn.