# Prof. Melissa Schilling on the unionization of Microsoft's contract workers

1 Faculty News April 30, 2015 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg.jpg?itok=7lKHn1Sf)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-30/microsoft-contract-workers-are-organizing) -- "Collective bargaining is a poor fit for tech companies, says [Melissa Schilling](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/melissa-schilling), a management professor at New York University’s business school. 'When you have an industry with a lot of technological change, you really need to preserve your ability to be nimble,' she says."

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