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MIT PhD student JS Tan and former Kickstarter technologist Clarissa Redwine published "Against Tech Oligarchy," a book chronicling the rise and fall of tech worker labor organizing since the 2017 Trump travel ban protests, including the Google Project Maven walkouts.
US employees at the Wikimedia Foundation are joining unionization efforts, but management has declined voluntary recognition. The union drive follows a volunteer editor strike and tensions over layoffs.
Tech workers are increasingly turning to unions in response to AI-driven layoffs, increased surveillance, and workload pressures, with drives at Google DeepMind, Meta, and others.