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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by space_fountain on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:04AM (#21814845)
But IANAL firing some one for telling their co-workers about their right to unionize is an illegal reason to fire someone. I'm not completely convinced that's what happened here but still
Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by matwood on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:27PM (#21816812)
Technology makes a lot of these good intentioned laws hard to interpret. You cannot be fired for telling your co-workers that they are allowed to unionize. What if you work for a call center, commandeered an auto-dialer, and called every co-worker in the company with the same message? What about a popup on every page of an internal company website? Is someone allowed to stand up in the middle of the office with a megaphone and tell everyone they can unionize?
Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by Alex3917 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:31PM (#21816860)
> What if you work for a call center, commandeered an auto-dialer, and called every co-worker in the company with the same message?

The law already covers situations like this, in terms of whether or not employees are allowed to use the internal technology tools of their employers in order to organize.

Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by matwood on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:53PM (#21817969)
So what does the law say?