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posted by martyb on Wednesday December 18 2019, @01:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the with-great-responsibility dept.

Kathryn Spiers says Google terminated her after she created a browser tool to notify employees of their organizing rights.

[...] Back in September, Google reached a settlement with the NLRB over earlier alleged violations of federal labor law. Under the settlement, Google was required to post a list of employee rights in its Mountain View headquarters.

[...] So when Google hired a consulting company known for its anti-union work, Spiers wrote a notification that would appear whenever Google employees visited the firm's website. The notification stated that "Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities." That's a legal term of art for worker organizing efforts. It also included a link to the worker rights notification mandated by the NLRB settlement.

[...] Two weeks later, on December 13, Spiers was fired.

[...] The complaint argues that her firing was an "attempt to quell Spiers and other employees from asserting their right to engage in concerted protected activities."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/engineer-says-google-fired-her-for-browser-pop-up-about-worker-rights/

Previous stories:
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/12/04/0029250
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/11/26/1411249

Seems like a pattern of abuse to me. Just not necessarily by the employees.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @02:56AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @02:56AM (#933559)

    Fuck Unions. I was a teamster until we voted those assmobster butt pirates out. Guess what? No more union dues and better benefits. If the job sucks... A union isn't going to fix it.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @04:04AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @04:04AM (#933584)

    I hear that. My white male privilege gets me way better than organizing. Even the unions agree the present crisis was most definitely caused by the hordes of Muslim Mexican rapist incels.

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @03:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @03:05PM (#933741)

      Joking aside, my teamster white male privilege didn't get me anywhere while working alongside women or Mexicans... My skills did. Go ahead and keep marking my posts flamebait or troll. The truth is Unions aren't there to represent workers, they're there to collect dues (work tax). You'll get better benefits without the Union. Workplaces stuck in Unions will treat you like shit and won't negotiate one on one for better working conditions. They will only abide by Union stipulations and not one cent more. You're basically screwed.