Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”

Re:Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employ... by judge2020 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @10:57AM (#29908206)

Once a union is in place, it's hard to remove it, especially if you end up with a lot of union employees that act like the above. It's important for the workforce starting a union to choose, but they surely need to know both the pros and cons, right?

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Re:Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employ... by jakelazaroff on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:08AM (#29908422)

Do we really think not knowing the cons is an issue? Companies can literally force employees to go to anti-union training.

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Re:Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employ... by cool_dude85 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:18AM (#29908633)

It can be hard to remove but usually not so hard to influence elections if and when the abuses are serious. If the union is protecting some do-nothing guy, you probably won't win an election on that, but effective theft of funds you absolutely would.

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Re:Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employ... by pydry on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:05AM (#29908347)

Simply existing in a capitalist society is enough to have the cons explained at you.

If not in the almost exclusively investor owned media then in the attendance-mandatory antiunion propaganda meetings you will be forced to attend if managment start to fret.

There's no danger of not hearing the cons.

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