<div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Tech companies, once seemingly immune to unions, are now becoming hotbeds of employee activism and protests. Google hired an "anti-union consulting firm" this week, per The New York Times. In addition, WeWork employees recently formed a coalition and folks at Kickstarter are pushing for a union. </span><a class="gmail-attributed-text-hyperlink" href="https://www.axios.com/techs-new-labor-unrest-google-wework-kickstarter-rev-e4eb87d5-c3a3-433d-93e2-7211c06d806f.html" target="_blank" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:600;border:0px;color:rgb(0,115,177);line-height:26px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Axios suggests the following factors</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> are "opening big cracks" in the tech model: Bigger companies have a legion of contractors who don't see the lavish benefits of full-timers, creating a world of "haves" and "have nots." And gig economy platforms have stripped some workers of rights and benefits. </span>  </span><br></div>