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Alphabet illegally ended contract employment for Google staffers as they tried to unionize, organizers say in a complaint to US labor board (www.business-standard.com)

submitted 11 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 44 points 11 months ago

Big company uses union busting.

This is not a new story.

And it sucks that they can usually get away with it so often.

[-] rambaroo@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 34 points 11 months ago

That sucks. Not surprising, though. I hope the NRLB will fix their broken complain process. Right now, enforcement takes so long it's a joke.

[-] sethw@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

Can we not see who downvotes posts now? I'm real curious who this one guy is

[-] dept@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago

wdym? it has a 100% rating.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe a downvote from their instance didn't federate properly? I don't see a downvote either.

[-] k_rol@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

I see a downvoye as well and we are not from the same instance.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 11 months ago

🤷

It still shows 0 downvotes for me.

[-] RosemarySolomon@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Beehaw disables downvotes - so it may be that it shows from the instance, but technically it has "zero" downvotes.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 4 points 11 months ago

Oh, good point. I'll bet the downvotes don't federate at all from Beehaw. So if I downvoted it, I doubt anyone would see it, as I'm on my own private instance. And I would never see anyone else's downvotes. But if someone on your own instance downvotes it, you would probably see it.