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As I mentioned in the other thread [1] the Sept 1 charge (shutting down pay discussion channel in slack) is right on a current battleground for labour rights in
by advisedwang 5y ago
As I mentioned in the other thread [1] the Sept 1 charge (shutting down pay discussion channel in slack) is right on a current battleground for labour rights in the US. With new pro-labour NLRB chair and general council its highly likely they are going to push hard on this charge to try and reinforce rights to organize in company spaces.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28372867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28372867
- j_walter 5y agoNot to mention the Slack platform is meant for team discussions on work time. Apple is well within their rights to be shutting down pay discussions on company time and on a company platform. Now if they were to do so in the break room or cafeteria then that is a different story.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Apple is well within their rights to be shutting down pay discussions on company time and on a company platform. No, they aren't, selectively; they can comprehensively ban non-work discussions of all kinds, but if they don't, since discussions are covered as employee organizing/mutual aid, they cannot selectively be banned (in the US) without violating the National Labor Relations Act and (often) state labor relations law, as well.
- advisedwang 5y ago> Apple is well within their rights to be shutting down pay discussions on company time and on a company platform That's simply not what the legal precedent says. It is an "unfair labour practice" to forbid workers doing collective action like discussing pay in a venue where you let them have other kinds of general discussion.