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. Axios suggests the following factors <https://www.axios.com/techs-new-labor-unrest-google-wework-kickstarter-rev-e4eb87d5-c3a3-433d-93e2-7211c06d806f.html> 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.
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