dell staff are winning the prisoner's dilemma. great role models. Hold the line. They didn't even organize anything coherent at least as far as the article goes into. The bar isn't that high.
There's an old labor slogan I think about in times like this: "If it bleeds, we can kill it"
The thing about "you won't be promoted :'(" as a threat is that for it to work you have to trust management to recognize good-faith effort... and lol management isn't demonstrating that
Like we all know the way tech (and most other industries) work now, right? The ways of career advancement are:
- A bus factor gets bussed and you're the nearest bystander
- You become overqualified and underpaid and find a new, better job
Nobody expects to actually have a career track.
alsoplus, through the magic of Worker Aikido, the employees have managed to Uno Reverse that threat into the company hamstringing itself because without promotions, the only way to fill those roles is to hire at much higher salaries
