Parker has spoken often about his interest in startups that provide organizing power and political advocacy, so the tie-up between the two startups makes sense.

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Taken together, these provisions would sharply change the balance of power in both union organizing and negotiations.

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"The organizing committee does not have the power to change the referee's decision unless the referee admits he made a mistake in his official report, " said El Amrani.

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Inherently social organizations use the power of mission and self-organizing over top-down management principles governing large-scale initiatives of the past.

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So the power of the technical community is organizing itself in other ways, which I covered in my earlier post on the rise of developeronomics.

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