Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues
by bioinformatics on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:16AM
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I am pretty sure the work environment at Google is extremely oppressive, with low salaries and and top-down evil capitalist only approach. After all how can millionaires Google employees can have their voices heard if they don't unionize? Maybe they will demand better snacks in the cafeteria and a new foosball table at the end of the indoor slide.
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Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues
by bo0tzz on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:20AM
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Unions are not just for the purpose of getting fair pay, but rather about a broad case of being on equal footing with an employer, as stated in the parent comment. Besides, this union is not just for salaried google employees, but also contractors etc - this will include for example cleaners and cafetaria employees, which are much more likely to be in need of the sort of union support that you mention.
Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues
by xtian on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:27AM
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Google was one of the participants in a corporate wage-fixing scandal. Do snacks and foosball tables justify that?
Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues
by option on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:31AM
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and they got sued for that and lost. No union was involved in holding them accountable
Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues
by myWindoonn on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:12PM
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Because there's no union who represents Google, Apple, etc. employees as a single cohesive block, there couldn't have been a union holding folks accountable. You're implying that the courts were successful, but only after Googlers had an employee revolt (read: a non-union-organized strike!) against being taken to forced arbitration.