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Freeman [soylentnews.org] writes:

Kathryn Spiers says Google terminated her after she created a browser tool to notify employees of their organizing rights.
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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.
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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.
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Two weeks later, on December 13, Spiers was fired.
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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/ [arstechnica.com]

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

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

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