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Google’s next moonshot: union busting

• dlojudice 7y ago
  osnews.com used to be HN for me years ago
• itronitron 7y ago
  https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/googles-next-moonshot-union-busting-7bd2784dc690 https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/googles-next-moonshot-unio...
• jbob2000 7y ago
  Of all the places that need a union, google is the last place I’m thinking about. We’d be much better served by organizing a retail & fast food workers union, rather than one to protect highly educated and highly paid employees.
  • lukasm 7y ago
    Google union is not for wage and benefits. It is to stop Google becoming evil e.g. collaborating with Nazi China.
    • jbob2000 7y ago
      This is not what unions are for, unions protect labour. If you want to stop google from doing business with China, then you need to work with the government.
      • lukasm 7y ago
        unions have leverage that was predominately use to weld political power
      • drewbug01 7y ago
        Unions are for whatever workers want them to be. That’s kinda the point.
• Animats 7y ago
  But you have to have a Google or Facebook account to read the source article.
• deleted 7y ago
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• drusepth 7y ago
  How is this a moonshot? Am I misunderstanding the article or does this just need a better title?
  • lidHanteyk 7y ago
    Historically, corporate attempts at preventing unionization succeeded up to a point, and that point has long passed into the fog of history. Google will have to come up with something novel if they want to keep a union from forming. Remember, this is a company that was central to the "techtopus" pay-fixing/raise-suppressing scandal. When the author says that Google will attempt to bring their fist down hard upon their employees, the author does not mean that Google will succeed, only that Google will try and that their attempts will be bland but bold.