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Re:Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Wo... by mbostleman on Thursday January 24, 2019 @10:53AM (#18989707)
If one holds strongly a principle that opposes monopolies and supports strong anti-trust protections in the market, it would explain why the same argument is made regardless of industry.

Also, the issue focusing on using the company email system sounds to me like a bit of a strawman. Why in the world would you want to use a communication medium owned and controlled by your opponent for such a thing? And even if you wanted to, being not allowed to doesn't in anyway limit your ability to organize in any practical way. I mean seriously, these are presumably some of the smartest tech people on the planet. They can't figure out a way to commmunicate independently?

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Re:Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Wo... by neilk on Thursday January 24, 2019 @12:04PM (#18990485)
Congratulations! You figured out that this isn’t about “theft of services” or anything like that.

It’s about

1) Legalizing retaliation in case you mention the union meeting to a coworker over a Slack private message.

2) Drastically reducing the visibility of union organization in the workplace. That makes it much harder to reach critical mass.

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Re:Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Wo... by mbostleman on Thursday January 24, 2019 @12:42PM (#18990916)
To me the primary issue has nothing to do with unions. It has to do with private property. The company pays for and owns the property. No one should have any "rights" to using it.
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Re:Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Wo... by jtms on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:14PM (#18992476)
Right??! What kind of upside down world of entitlement are we sliding into? With google on your resume just go work somewhere else that fits your ideology better if you aren’t happy with the present’s behavior.
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