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“We’re a university. We’re supposed to be about public excellence. We’re about trying to figure out new ways to do stuff. UCLA was one of the birthplaces of the internet. I seriously doubt that a Deloitte consultant hired by the administration would have approved of a project like the internet.”

The Biggest Tech Union in the Country Isn't in Silicon Valley A while back I wrote about San Francisco’s cab drivers—the people the tech industry came for first, back when it decided the rules didn’t apply to it.

“There’s sometimes a bad rap that folks in IT have that perhaps we may not be as open to unions, and may be on occasion antisocial. What I’m hoping is that this victory gives people the sense that tech workers deal with a lot of the same workplace situations as people in other industries, and it is possible to bring people together for a shared vision of how our workplace can be.”

University of California tech workers vote to unionize with desire to shape AI policy They say they’re worried about waves of layoffs at tech companies, and have the knowledge to help the university find the best uses for AI.

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