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 Apocryphon on Saturday September 21, 2019 @02:11PM (#21036915)

> Wouldn't you get lazy after a couple of years? Doesn't this create incentives to deliberately work more slowly?

Maybe without unpaid overtime and burnout, developers will finally have the chance to contribute to open source and side projects that recruiters are always looking for.

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Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by mszcz on Saturday September 21, 2019 @04:59PM (#21037911)

Whoa whoa I'm not sayin people should be treated like shit. Just that that USPS example didn't really look all that good.

Burnout sucks and being exploited sucks. I'm all for unlimited sick days, being compensated for all the work and time you put in, getting the benefits that you're guaranteed by law etc. In exchange for that I sure would expect the employer to expect me performing well. Quid pro quo. The USPS example didn't imply that imho.

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Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by scarejunba on Saturday September 21, 2019 @02:20PM (#21036977)

I guess we can test that. How many USPS developers are open source mavens?

EDIT: Did I misunderstand a joke or something? Doesn't seem like I said anything particularly controversial.

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Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by spamizbad on Saturday September 21, 2019 @02:48PM (#21037147)

Several are unpaid Linux kernel contributors.

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Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by mszcz on Sunday September 22, 2019 @12:41PM (#21042295)

And many thanks to those guys for their work!

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