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Re:Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-unio... by OskarS on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:43AM (#13856171)
Imagine doing a podcast solely for your employees full of propaganda with the purpose of preventing them from unionizing. Seems like a very disturbing company culture.
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Re:Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-unio... by freehunter on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:49AM (#13857776)
I worked quite a few retail jobs in college and the only ones who did not have mandatory training on the horrors of unions were the ones that were already unionized.

Walmart goes so far to avoid any talk of unions that the one time employees unionized, they shut down that entire department for good, across every store.

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Re:Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-unio... by Spooky23 on Monday March 13, 2017 @03:03PM (#13861155)
The difference is that you were an employee of the store. Uber drivers are supposedly free agents.
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Re:Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-unio... by mdonahoe on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:29AM (#13856368)
What employees? Uber insists the drivers are contractors.
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Re:Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-unio... by strictfp on Monday March 13, 2017 @07:01AM (#13856735)
At first I read 'disrupting' instead of 'disturbing'. Ahh, spooky
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Re:Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-unio... by baq on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:10AM (#13856285)
i'd start unionizing out of spite.
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Re:Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-unio... by askAwayMan on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:54AM (#13857814)
Companies like Amazon and Walmart do this as well. Amazon's contracts (when I was there) included terms for firing workers that tried to unionize.
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Re:Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-unio... by somethingsimple on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:46AM (#13858806)
Isn't that against federal law?
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Re:Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-unio... by saosebastiao on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:40AM (#13858739)
My first week of operations management training at Amazon consisted of anti-unionization training with some token operations training thrown in.
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