i think this is a crucial point, i was on the bargaining committee for a contract and the emergent anti-woke notion that these unions just sit around doing "CULTURE WAR" with little to no regard for "old school material concerns" or whatever Bowles is pretending to be nostalgic about is just sort of made up, usually as a wildly dispropor…
i think this is a crucial point, i was on the bargaining committee for a contract and the emergent anti-woke notion that these unions just sit around doing "CULTURE WAR" with little to no regard for "old school material concerns" or whatever Bowles is pretending to be nostalgic about is just sort of made up, usually as a wildly disproportionate overreaction to someone's tweets. the unions don't lose sleep and patience over "CULTURE WAR," we lose sleep and patience over money and protections. but nothing beats the social media fanfic abt these issues.
right. I doubt that anyone who has been at the bargaining table or part of a union is persuaded by this, but it's certainly a growing anti union talking point and from I have seen it has zero basis in reality. The cancel culture people (not talking about you Freddie) apply that framework to literally anyone that has a grievance if they get the chance, workers be damned.
Here's a telling reaction from Greenwald after reading a story about how executives unilaterally decided at a remote tech company that workers aren't allowed to discuss anything except work on the company communications channels (effectively outlawing casual chats between coworkers as far as I can tell). One might think a man like Greenwald would be concerned for the free speech rights of the workers, but actually no, one of the workers used woke language to push back on management so actually this is just cancel culture and we should side with management https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1389608061682257932.
yes this is in a thread that began "Wokeness, ultimately, is neither really an ideology nor even a politics. At its worst, it's about petty cultural control, but mostly it's just a personal branding image by those otherwise at a loss for identity, purpose and self-esteem. That's why power centers love it so much."
his characterization of the story about Basecamp is that it is a story of wokeness, which he characterizes above. I say it's a story where executives made a unilateral, draconian decision that their employees didn't like and some of them used woke terminology in their attempts to push back. Interpret that however you want.
i think this is a crucial point, i was on the bargaining committee for a contract and the emergent anti-woke notion that these unions just sit around doing "CULTURE WAR" with little to no regard for "old school material concerns" or whatever Bowles is pretending to be nostalgic about is just sort of made up, usually as a wildly disproportionate overreaction to someone's tweets. the unions don't lose sleep and patience over "CULTURE WAR," we lose sleep and patience over money and protections. but nothing beats the social media fanfic abt these issues.
right. I doubt that anyone who has been at the bargaining table or part of a union is persuaded by this, but it's certainly a growing anti union talking point and from I have seen it has zero basis in reality. The cancel culture people (not talking about you Freddie) apply that framework to literally anyone that has a grievance if they get the chance, workers be damned.
Here's a telling reaction from Greenwald after reading a story about how executives unilaterally decided at a remote tech company that workers aren't allowed to discuss anything except work on the company communications channels (effectively outlawing casual chats between coworkers as far as I can tell). One might think a man like Greenwald would be concerned for the free speech rights of the workers, but actually no, one of the workers used woke language to push back on management so actually this is just cancel culture and we should side with management https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1389608061682257932.
Where does Greenwald say "we should side with management"?
The entire text of that tweet, in response to the question "How would you define what 'wokeness' means?" is this: "That's a discussion not suitable for the constraints of Twitter, but you can find a pretty good expression of its defining attributes here: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employee-resignations-buyouts-implosion "
yes this is in a thread that began "Wokeness, ultimately, is neither really an ideology nor even a politics. At its worst, it's about petty cultural control, but mostly it's just a personal branding image by those otherwise at a loss for identity, purpose and self-esteem. That's why power centers love it so much."
his characterization of the story about Basecamp is that it is a story of wokeness, which he characterizes above. I say it's a story where executives made a unilateral, draconian decision that their employees didn't like and some of them used woke terminology in their attempts to push back. Interpret that however you want.
And still nothing that shows that Greenwald ever said that "we should side with management", in that dispute or any other.