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> prohibiting companies from engaging in practises that make this impossible I'm pretty sure this would exclude utilizing company equipment (i.e. email) for th
by canada_dry 7y ago
> prohibiting companies from engaging in practises that make this impossible
I'm pretty sure this would exclude utilizing company equipment (i.e. email) for that purpose though. To illustrate: if you worked at Walmart and used their posters to make picket signs that wouldn't fly under employee rights.
- mindslight 7y agoEmail is not inventory to be sold, or even depletable. This is more like putting up a flyer in the break room. Technically the cork board gets damaged by the push pin, but it's not particularly relevant.
- UnmitigatedFart 7y agoEnergy and (wo)man-hours to run an email server infrastructure and all of the security to go along with it.
- mindslight 7y agoWhich is basically a fixed cost, like putting up a cork board. So as I said, not particularly relevant. But as you're helping shoehorn property rights into support for authoritarianism, I will point you to some legal advice directly: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/shop-talk-rules-union-related-conversations-activities-work.html https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/shop-talk-rules-unio... As long as Amazon prohibits using their calendars for all non-work content (and enforces this), they're in the right. Otherwise, this is censorship targeted at employee organizing and they're in the wrong.
- rmdashrfstar 7y agoIt’s not a fixed cost.