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Re: unions? at Atari?
- To: Brian <http://www.eecs..edu/~b>
- Subject: Re: unions? at Atari?
- From: Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:20:01 -0700
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> 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.