Welcome to the party Katie! I’ve believed that “Technology can’t be an excuse to bust unions and leave workers behind” for over 20 years. I realized that the high speed communications used to offshore our jobs could be used to organize a union to save jobs. I asked to use our online electronic bulletin board to organize employee meetings. Our CEO refused saying it would complicate the offshoring, which was entirely the point.

I learned a lot about labor law after his refusal. I filed and won a National Labor Relations Board case against the company. The case was resolved after the factory, the largest employer in our county, was moved overseas.

Thanks for recognizing the value of high tech in America and passing the CHIPS Act, Katie. I’ll bet you didn’t know that the people forced to offshore the chip factories in the first place didn’t agree with the decision to expatriate those jobs and factories. Our factory didn’t make chips, we made the signal analyzers used by many of our three letter government agencies for intelligence gathering. Gear so advanced we couldn’t export it to China, though management figured a loophole to let China work on the software. Tik-Tok, I’m sure that decision will never come back to haunt U.S.

Anyhow I support the writers too. Let’s get together at Starbucks sometime and talk about labor rights, if you’re UPS for it.