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Title: Silicon Valley, Meet Organized Labor Author: Kevin Roose

*Source*: New York

*Date:* Oct 8, 2014

*Summary: *Tech companies and labor unions have never been friends. Whether union protectionism has made it tech's enemy http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/29/why-labor-unions-and-silicon-valley-arent-friends-in-2-charts/ or, as historians have written, tech's executive class was opposed to unions http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/silicon-valleys-anti-unionism-and-class-warfare.html from the beginning, the fact remains that the Teamsters and other labor groups have never had much of a foothold in Silicon Valley.

But that's about to change.

*Link*: http://nym.ag/1qoMLTk

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