Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
by scarmig on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:25PM
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Fun fact: Pinkerton is still around and is "the world's leading provider of corporate risk management solutions" [0]. Companies regularly hire Pinkerton muscle to handle "security threats" related to union organizing.
Interestingly, even Google retains Pinkerton to investigate internal leaks [1].
[0] https://www.pinkerton.com/
[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/147619/pinkertons-still-neve...
Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
by lsiebert on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:34PM
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Still in existence, and willing to litigate about it's historical portrayal.
Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
by sjg007 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:29PM
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You’d think Pinkerton would have rebranded.
Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
by jeffdavis on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:49PM
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Perhaps it's still an effective brand in their target market?
Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
by FactolSarin on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:16PM
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This. Their customers are buying into the brand.
Not as much as you might think. Militant labor unions are still extremely beneficial despite the lack of Pinkerton assassins. The hardest part in organizing is going from 0 to 1. Once you've gotten to the point of collective action, the idea that you don't then go on to form a union is as wild as a startup building an MVP, getting funding, and then just disbanding.