Nearest Neighbors - by Josh Erb - Reboot
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Solidarity, startups, and convenience
“Organizing isn’t reading Das Kapital,” proclaimed labor organizer Emma Kinema in a 2022 interview with Reboot. That is: when faced with poor working conditions, theory alone won’t solve your problems. A union, however, might. In today’s essay, writer and software engineer Josh Erb tells the first-person story of the Mapbox Union effort: what inspired him to organize, the opposition the union faced, and what he learned about power and solidarity along the way. — Jasmine Sun, Reboot Editorial Board By Josh Erb It takes guts to say “union” to a coworker and mean it. The first time I said…
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