Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contractor's vote to unionize

Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by youeseh on Saturday September 21, 2019 @12:07PM (#21036141)

This is not true. There are a large number of contractors working at Google, Facebook and other companies in engineering and other skilled roles. Their contracts are from 3 to 6 months long.

If you're in a bind and need a job, you get placed quickly by one of the firms supplying contractors to the large companies. Since you're in a bind, you accept making a lower salary, which ends up being around 60-75% of the base salary of a full-time employee without any of the other benefits of being full-time.

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Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by denormalfloat on Saturday September 21, 2019 @12:12PM (#21036164)

There are more than 100k TVCs at Google. I don't think you can speak generally about them, because there is high diversity in their job roles.

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Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by 0xffff2 on Saturday September 21, 2019 @09:55PM (#21039146)

I mean this in the least pejorative way possible, but not all software engineering positions are skilled labor, especially at Google’s scale.

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