Some tech employees turned on their employers this year. Will 2020 bring more tensions?
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English - December 31, 2019 11:30 - 5 minutes - 11.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It’s prediction season. This week we’re asking our Marketplace beat reporters what to expect in tech in 2020. Today, we’re talking labor in the tech industry, specifically about the trend of workers protesting their own companies. In 2019, employees from Amazon, Microsoft, Google and other tech giants walked out, signed petitions or went public with complaints about military contracts, tech for oil and gas companies and internal problems with culture and discrimination. Google employees even joined the United Steelworkers Union to formalize their organizing.