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The Power of None: A Virtual Strike
The IBM strike of September 2007 was historic because it didn't really happen. That is to say it actually took place in virtual-reality. Real-life IBM workers in Italy were engaged in protracted negotiations that had hit an impasse, so they called for a mass picket at IBM's virtual-world campus in Second Life. An estimated 1,500 avatars from around the world assembled there for 12 hours of peaceful picketing; non-existent people picketing the non-existent premises of a non-existent business in a non-existent world. How very 21st century.

Striking avatars gather at IBM's facility in Second Life
Mark Griffin
Mark founded Cyberpoint back in March 1995 when he realised how important the Internet was to become, and he has been fully vindicated in that confidence.



