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How the union busting consulting firm Google hired compiles employee dossiers
- Valodim 6y agoHow is "union avoidance" even a service that can be offered by companies? The listed examples of their business practices sound downright perverse to me
- chmod775 6y agoIt's also downright illegal in many (all?) European countries, as US companies often like to find out. Not the kind of 'mistake' that just gets your company fined either - it's the kind that can land you in prison. Even the US has some forms of protections, which is likely why that is not how that "union avoidance" service is described very differently by the company itself.
- musicale 6y ago> Not the kind of 'mistake' that just gets your company fined either - it's the kind that can land you in prison It will be interesting to see if there is any enforcement against US companies operating in Europe.
- internet_user 6y agoexamples of enforcement? never heard of anyone going to jail over this.
- pjmlp 6y agoIn what concerns Europe, I am aware that there are lawyers that offer such services, they avoid the legal issues by not being explicit what what it actually means in practice and then there is the whole customer/lawyer confidentiality part.
- type0 6y agoIt sounds like a Comedy Central episode of "Nathan For You"
- musicale 6y agoCan't they just google them? ;-)
- snake_plissken 6y ago"Union avoidance consultants, often hired as independent contractors which allows firms to circumvent federal reporting requirements, often work with multiple clients at once, sometimes parachuting into a worksite for just a few weeks or days to train managers and hold "educational" meetings with workers. Tracking the union avoidance firms behind anti-union campaigns is intentionally made difficult by firms that subcontract out work to other firms that hire independent contractors to avoid federal reporting requirements laid out by the Department of Labor and shield themselves from public scrutiny." It really does seem that in this day and age, the "independent contractor" classification is just a legal car wash. At some point contractors have to become an auxiliary appendage to the corporation, but I don't know what point that is. I do know it's another symptom of a dysfunctional system where many things just don't 'feel' right.
- sjg007 6y agoSounds pretty evil to me.
- oblongx 6y agoHow do they collect this information? Are they conducting interviews with staff? under what pretext?
- tareqak 6y agoI wonder if these companies like IRI use employee social media profiles in their research.