Tech workers are organizing and demanding democracy in the workplace

People who work in the tech industry spoke to Salon of a budding labor movement, and a concurrent tide of democratic socialists, within their ranks. Darby Thomas, a product designer who moved to San Francisco for a tech job, told Salon last November she got involved in the “Yes to Prop C” campaign by way of the Democratic Socialists of America San Francisco chapter. Matthew Pancia, an engineer in Silicon Valley, told Salon that tech workers are generally a liberal group of people, with liberal social views, but they often align themselves with “an overarching and really oppressive technolibertarian vision of Silicon Valley” — referring to the industry’s growing reliance on contract workers and tendency to create incentive packages that largely reward the people at the top.

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