On today’s Your Call we’ll talk about the recent lawsuits that show Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe illegally conspired to suppress employees’ wages. How are high-skilled workers in tech responding? Could there be a resurgence of organizing among tech workers in response? And why has high-tech proved so resistant to worker organizing? Join the conversation on the next Your Call with me, Matt Martin, and you.
Guests:
Mark Ames, senior editor of PandoDaily
Danielle van Jaarsveld, associate professor at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia
Rennie Sawade, communication chair at WashTech
Web Resources:
Class action lawsuit: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation Settlement Administration Website
PandoDaily: Revealed: Apple and Google’s wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees
New York Times: Wage Theft Across the Board
Reuters: Judge says concerned about Apple, Google hiring settlement
The Atlantic: Why IT Workers Should Unionize
Washington Alliance of Technology Workers