0x815@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agoAlphabet illegally ended contract employment for Google staffers as they tried to unionize, organizers say in a complaint to US labor boardwww.business-standard.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1292arrow-down10
arrow-up1292arrow-down1external-linkAlphabet illegally ended contract employment for Google staffers as they tried to unionize, organizers say in a complaint to US labor boardwww.business-standard.com0x815@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·1 year agoBig company uses union busting. This is not a new story. And it sucks that they can usually get away with it so often.
minus-squarerambaroo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 year agoThese laws are intentionally toothless. Google will eat the fines and the feds can pretend they won something. Nothing will change until we start imprisoning executives who break the law.
minus-squareQuokka@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIf the law is refusing to go after these people, why hope for imprisonment? Remember last time it took workers taking bosses hostage or worse to get results.
Big company uses union busting.
This is not a new story.
And it sucks that they can usually get away with it so often.
These laws are intentionally toothless. Google will eat the fines and the feds can pretend they won something.
Nothing will change until we start imprisoning executives who break the law.
If the law is refusing to go after these people, why hope for imprisonment?
Remember last time it took workers taking bosses hostage or worse to get results.