re: #98 Justanotherhuman

Over time, I recognized that it really wasn’t that much different from toiling away in a factory except you had to dress better. But the perception remains, which is why there were never any inroads in organizing office workers. We had been taught we were better than “common” laborers who earned their money by the sweat of their brows.

I worked at GM just when they brought in EDS to take over their entire IT department. All the GM IT workers had to become EDS workers. Those with seniority lost it and had to start all over. There was much anger and the UAW was trying to organize the IT workers.

EDS eventually outsourced all their operations and eventually they were eated by HP.