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Strategic sick days and coordinated slowdowns: the case for sabotage in Silicon Valley

Strategic sick days and coordinated slowdowns: the case for sabotage in Silicon Valley

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 22, 2025
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Tech workers who want to unionize have discovered an awkward truth: the code they write can outlast them. Walk-outs that shut down factories barely dent a company whose servers hum on autopilot. So an anonymous engineer, writing for the group Collective Action in Tech, offers a different playbook — one that treats a corporation …

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