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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."
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Seems like a pattern of abuse to me. Just not necessarily by the employees.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday December 18 2019, @03:14AM (2 children)
The US ruling class never made it out of the late 1800s, and it's full of psychopaths.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @03:28AM (1 child)
And their sycophants haunt online forums.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @10:26AM
Leave khallow alone!
We are going to form a khallow union, to which only khallows may belong. They will have backhoes for rent, and dream of being wealthy, some day. And they will suck up to rich people, just like real unions, when they go bad. As in Bad Faith.