Marcus Courtney
Marcus Courtney
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The high-tech industry is well known for the idea of long work hours with uncompensated overtime. As the finance and rewards have declined after the recession and companies are getting leaner and meaner, workers are less willing to be putting in the long hours without getting compensated.
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It's a classic example of what always happens when workers have issues with management,
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Clearly, the pixie dust for tech workers has worn off,
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If employers are seeing less increases in their healthcare costs, those savings are not passed on to employees but mostly shifted into the bottom line to please shareholders.
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Serious red flags were raised about the fact that the only customer service facility eliminated was the one trying to organize in a very anti-union company,
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The Alliance at IBM is still an active campaign, but we've not been able to build enough support to get to the point to have a vote, ... But the pension changes there, or the cutbacks and pension changes just announced at Hewlett Packard show the need for unions. They're unilateral, with no one in position to speak for the employees being affected.
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We've been monitoring the online bulletin boards and responding with e-mail messages. But, to be honest with you, our overtures haven't lead to any kind of concrete contacts.