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Re: unions? at Atari?



 > From: Brian <http://www.eecs..edu/~b>
 > Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 19:12:02 -0700
 >
 > On 4/24/19 7:03 PM, Robert wrote:
 > > Were you at Atari when there was an effort to unionize workers there in
 > > 1982/1983?
 > 
 > Yes, I guess so, but I don't recall anything about it.  Were they 
 > unionizing programmers, or, you know, secretaries and such?

I'm not sure.  I was reading articles about unions in high tech (I've been
involved with Tech Workers Coaltion lately) and the Atari thing was
mentioned in passing (as a failure), and was wondering if you knew
anything about it.

Guess not.

This article:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/03/18/unions-striking-out-in-high-tech-firms/d3127dcb-91be-4bbf-9618-3c2b605ed74d/?noredirect=on

seems to indicate that there was a lot of anti-union sentiment which
doomed the effort.




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