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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @08:24PM
Denmark - 85.8%
Norway - 78.2%
Sweden - 87.1%
USA - 55.7%
Those percents are your answer - voter turnout in recent major elections. You want to know who the biggest party, by a landslide, in the US is? Democrats and republicans each go to war over about 25% of the vote a piece. 45% of the rest of society looks on with bemusement at how broken our system is. The party of political disenfranchisement wins, hard.
The political system in the US is pretty idiotic. Unions introduce politics into the workplace. They then demand money for this, quite a lot of it. And people get to see what unions produce. Public teachers? Police? Post office? Yeah, they have crazy strong unions - and those industries are simply broken: filled with people that need'd to be fired a decade ago, gross ineptitude, broken politics, and a mountain of bureaucrazy for even the slightest issue.
And then there's corruption. Plays into the reasons for the 45%, but it deserves its own section. The average teacher in the US earns around $55k. This [unionfacts.com] is a list of compensation for the US Teacher's union. Want to double or triple your salary and get power over other people? Become a mid-level union bureaucrat! Creates a pretty broken incentive system and also emphasizes that the union and the union leaders quite rapidly end up becoming entirely different groups of people.