Is Tech finally realizing that contractors employees need benefits too?

In Fast Company magazine, this article about how Survey Monkey changed its standards and benefits requirements for its contractors employees. If they can do it, all the big ones can and should have done it long time ago. Who is going to put the pressure on all? Progressive shareholders? Concerned journalists/media? 

What does this mean? We hope you get it because we don't.

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About Silicon Valley but it could as well be Bellevue, Redmond and Seattle

From The Guardian.

Lionbridge mailed the settlement checks

Lionbridge mailed the settlement checks: many arrived on Saturday April 28. Let us know if you have not received yours.
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Workers of Silicon Valley (and Puget Sound?) it's time to organize?

This opinion/article from the New York Times has no question marks. It's also interesting to read the comments (in a much less optimistic but maybe more realistic tone). Read also this.
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An interesting story about people trying to organize in high tech: Coding and coercion

In the magazine Jacobin. Many similarities with our own story: from illegally firing the first person who complains to outsourcing the whole lab to get rid of the union.

Email/letter sent to former Tier1s about the settlement

See the email/letter below, sent on April 19.