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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by CydeWeys on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:26AM (#25631001)
> The idea behind unions is that an employer is not willing to lay off all the employees that are unionized (because this would lead to a sharp decline in productivity and thus KPIs).

It's also illegal.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by q-big on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:30AM (#25631042)
> It's also illegal.

Then you find another pretense for firing many of them.

Addendum: There exist so many oblique "performance metrics" you can apply on the employee to find such a pretense.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by CydeWeys on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:10AM (#25632214)
It's super obvious if the unionized employees have a much higher firing rate than the non-unionized employees.
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