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There's a key difference being over-looked here. Rank-and-file employees have strong legal protections against retaliation for unionization efforts. Employees
by powera 7y ago
There's a key difference being over-looked here.
Rank-and-file employees have strong legal protections against retaliation for unionization efforts. Employees in management roles do not.
I think it's perfectly reasonable for Google to attempt to transition union organizers out of a management role.
Of course, "management" is a term that is extremely vague inside Google; at least historically "Tech Leads" would not have been considered managers, so there could be an extremely low proportion of the company in a managerial role.
- chrisseaton 7y ago> I think it's perfectly reasonable for Google to attempt to transition union organizers out of a management role I wouldn't have thought managers would be welcome in a union in the first place? Doesn't a union represent workers against management?
- duxup 7y agoIn established US unions often anyone in a management role is not allowed in the union. Having said that unionizing activities are widely protected so ... talking about a union and such is allowed broadly so it would come down to what the actual established union rules would be.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoThat's why you have a separate unions for Managers and Professionals. My Branch in the UK at one point had a CTO of Motorola as a member.