Tech workers are organizing. Meet the labor vets whispering in their ears.

Ambrogi, a senior campaigns specialist for Coworker.org, a nonprofit that helps workers organize, had just gotten off the phone with Dare Brewer, a salesperson at a Tesla retail location in Richmond, Virginia, who started a Coworker.org petitionearlier this winter. The electric vehicle company recently cut commissions for sales employees, a change that some say has forced them to seek second jobs, sign up for public benefits, or fall back on food pantries to compensate for lost income. Tesla had reportedly said that it would make up for the change by increasing employees’ salaries, but Brewer’s petition calls the raise “very slight” compared with the “devastating decrease in commission.” She asks for “a 15% increase in base pay to bring us closer to a living wage.”

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