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Equitable employment practice must become one of the things we don’t drop in a downturn, like health insurance or parental leave. The...
https://connectified.com/@ChrisH...Equitable employment practice must become one of the things we don’t drop in a downturn, like health insurance or parental leave. The economic wellness of our region and its people must take priority over share price. We need to recast our economy as one that works for workers.
There’s work to be done... there are a variety of ways in which you can participate, also identified in the doc. bit.ly/equitabletech (3/3)
30.5.2023 16:34Equitable employment practice must become one of the things we don’t drop in a downturn, like health insurance or parental leave. The...https://connectified.com/@ChrisH...
...Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) budgets, teams, and scopes have been slashed...
https://connectified.com/@ChrisH......Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) budgets, teams, and scopes have been slashed (https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2023/02/19/black-workers-are-the-hardest-hit-by-tech-layoffs/?sh=182bb662313e). It’s becoming hard to maintain faith in the sweeping pledges and commitments to racial equity made in 2020.
The fact is that it can’t keep coming down to faith. Any system in which one person’s fair and equitable access to prosperity requires someone else’s choice to make good on their own pledge is not a just system. That’s charity. What we need is something else entirely. (2/3)
30.5.2023 16:32...Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) budgets, teams, and scopes have been slashed...https://connectified.com/@ChrisH...
A Campaign for Worker-Led Equity in Tech...
https://connectified.com/@ChrisH...A Campaign for Worker-Led Equity in Tech (https://equityintech.notion.site/A-Campaign-for-Worker-Led-Equity-in-Tech-a2f715d315b74caa8c67f753fe33121e)
From David Delmar Sentíes, Pariss Chandler, and others: "We are living through a setback in our collective pursuit of racial equity in Boston tech. Last fall, a wave of layoffs swept through the industry, nationally, from which we haven’t yet recovered. Black workers have been disproportionately impacted (https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/04/02/the-people-most-affected-by-the-tech-layoffs/). (1/3)
30.5.2023 16:31A Campaign for Worker-Led Equity in Tech...https://connectified.com/@ChrisH...