—Stephen McMurtry is a Google Software program Engineer and Communications Chair of the Alphabet Employees Union-CWA
Tousled within the contest to be the subsequent US president, there may be one other battle brewing: Silicon Valley vs. Silicon Valley. In Donald Trump’s nook are enterprise capitalists like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, together with executives like Elon Musk. Within the different are execs like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and SV Angel investing mogul Ron Conway, who’re backing Kamala Harris. Democracy seems to be at stake, and the weapon of selection is chilly arduous money.
But as an elected board member of the Alphabet Employees Union, an affiliate of the Communications Employees of America, I urge People to take a step again and look critically on the image in entrance of us. Regardless of who wins in November, Silicon Valley’s bosses are positioning themselves for victory.
Tech’s elite have lengthy been the most important winners within the US economic system, and the motion to arrange tech staff seeks to carry that elite accountable. If the subsequent president favors our bosses’ pursuits over our personal, the results might be dire for all working individuals on this nation and plenty of others.
We all know the best way to battle again towards a future Trump administration as a result of we’ve been there earlier than. What’s much less clear is whether or not and to what extent we will rely on a Harris administration to be our ally. Learn the complete story.
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Final 12 months’s Canadian wildfires smashed data, burning about seven instances extra land in Canada’s forests than the annual common over the earlier 4 many years. Eight firefighters have been killed and 180,000 individuals displaced.
