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Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by Animats on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:24PM (#18652030)
I am impressed that these employees are able to talk about this stuff and not get managed out of the company.

Me too. I expect some people to be fired, but in some subtle way. "One out, all out". (Few today know what that means. Find out.)

If you want to see an effective union of creative and technical employees, see The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839.[1] They represent the major studio animators and some CGI people in Hollywood. They have about 2500 members.

A big advantage of being represented by IATSE is "crunch time = big overtime pay". Films do have scheduling crunches, and they come out of the production budget and the producer's cut. This is why film scheduling is a real thing and software scheduling is a joke.

[1] https://animationguild.org/

Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by nostrademons on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:52PM (#18652195)
> "One out, all out". (Few today know what that means. Find out.)

Could you link something, for the curious of us? I googled but the vast majority of results are scientific papers about the Water Framework Directive for assessing the health of bodies of water, plus a Wikipedia link to the "One in, one out policy" (not the same thing), plus a Guardian article that alluded to something about union-busting but never explained the history of the term.

Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by telotortium on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:04PM (#18660191)
I had trouble too - maybe there really is a capitalist conspiracy ;) The best references I could find are [1] and [2].

As far as I can tell, the point is solidarity - if one worker strikes, all workers must strike. Any scabs who go back to work will be ostracized by the loyal strikers.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=KUopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA314&lpg=... [2] https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/one-out-all-out.9459...