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Apple threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work, feds charge
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- sodality2 2y agoHard-paywalled unfortunately
- Mountain_Skies 2y agohttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/apple-illegally-threatened-workers-over-their-talk-about-pay-and-remote-work-feds-charge/ar-AA1tD6mm https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/apple-illegally-threatened...
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- thecleaner 2y agoI am going to pay these folks just because they broke this story.
- ChrisArchitect 2y ago[dupe] some more earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051895
- cyberax 2y ago[flagged]
- nielsbot 2y agoI know you're joking (fingers crossed) but I do assume worker organizing will get a lot tougher and less legal under Trump.
- aaronbrethorst 2y agoWhy do you assume they’re joking? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/02/magazine/trump-politics-justice-department.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/02/magazine/trum...
- anonzzzies 2y agoSeems many(most?) people who voted for him think he was joking ; immigrants voting for him, people who would suffer from tariffs, former democrats who wouldn't want to see their still democrat family dragged off by the military etc. So now we all hope he is just a beginner standup comedian and is working on his repertoire?
- ttyprintk 2y agoStill, the “we’ll just have to see” deflection does leave open the possibility ordinary people can accept things much worse than his rhetoric. He didn’t use fear to its full potential in the last admin. This is the part of the stand-up routine where disloyal Republican lawmakers need an extrajudicial firing squad. See, the fear is now and still directed inward until he can purify the party.
- anonzzzies 2y agoIt is all so familiar though... The 'we'll just have to see' is what everyone says now. They said that in different periods in history as well, until it was too late. Just wait and see is not what voting for a leader(s) should be about; you vote for policies and those policies might not pan out completely, however, the general gist should be there. Not spew so much random crap and then have people vote them in with a 'wait and see' attitude. Makes it somehow even worse.
- ttyprintk 2y agoBut once you’ve seen the history, you are compelled to be a “this was not inevitable” person. Already, I’m seeing people deny that Project 2025 was organized and released last year by the Heritage Foundation. https://archive.org/details/project-2025-mandate-for-leadership-full_202309-manifesto https://archive.org/details/project-2025-mandate-for-leaders...
- titaniumtown 2y agoAre you referring to Ken Paxton? That guy is terrifying. He said he wants to enforce anti-sodomy laws.
- ttyprintk 2y agoHis impeachment and obvious attempts to gain Trump’s attention put him on the short list. Expanding the DOJ into sodomy enforcement is not surprising; he’s a surveillance prosecutor.
- roenxi 2y ago> He said he wants to enforce anti-sodomy laws. Does the US have anti-sodomy laws for him to enforce?
- jampekka 2y agoYes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_St...
- rsynnott 2y agoYes. Found unconstitutional in 2003, but a number of states still have them on the books.
- titaniumtown 2y agoYup! They're on the books, just not enforced.
- vincnetas 2y agoPlease, please, please, don't let your country go the path of radical religion like Iran did after Iranian revolution. Keeping religion out of state business looks like really nice idea when it comes to personal liberties.
- BoingBoomTschak 2y agoWhy do you think it is solely religion behind this value? If anything, religion is only a pretext.
- rendall 2y agoIt was a metaphor, and the target is not "Democrats" but those who the MAGA crowd perceive as usurping law enforcement powers of government to support political aims. But I agree. That kind of talk is scary, polarizing, and unbecoming of leadership.
- stouset 2y agoMaybe people who expect to have the power to absolutely destroy people’s lives should speak soberly and with clear intent instead of hyperbolically when referring to exactly how excited they are to destroy people’s lives.
- refurb 2y agoConsidering how freely “Hitler” was casually thrown about during the election, I think we’re well past that point.
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- lynx23 2y agoI am done with maniiuplative out-of-context quotes, like the other one about "you will not have to vote again". I've seen too much outright deception from the left, which were supposed to be the good guys, I am done.
- guilamu 2y agoThere was no deception. He said those words exactly: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/30/donald-trump-wont-have-to-vote-anymore-fox-interview https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/30/dona... Days later, he explained them. Knowing him, he could have meant them literally. He said he did not. Again, after the fact and after the global uproar. Those are the facts.
- rendall 2y agoFor those wondering, this is the reference: https://x.com/mrddmia/status/1854200785975775609 https://x.com/mrddmia/status/1854200785975775609 Following the rabbit hole further, this is the manifesto that inspired the comment: https://www.article3project.org/ https://www.article3project.org/
- wiseowise 2y agoInsane.
- Propelloni 2y agoHmh, that's an interesting site. On the one hand it uses the time-tested playbook of "we are a silent majority beleaguered by some evil outsider and we need to act now to protect us" to create a siege mentality and a distinction between US and THEM. Then you ramp up the rhetoric to dehumanize THEM and make atrocities palatable. You never let up on the point that US are fighting for our very lives. But that site claims US is winning. That's an unusual move in the playbook. Something doesn't add up.
- catlikesshrimp 2y agoTHEM just won the presidential and senate election, and the house is on the fence.
- jasonlotito 2y agoThat’s how words work. They are them in that context. That’s the problem, people think pronouns are woke and forget how they are used. And just because a rapist is elected president doesn’t mean it was the right thing to do.
- Propelloni 2y agoYou could use INGROUP for US, and OUTGROUP for THEM. Not the usual distinction but makes it easier to parse. Maybe it makes is also clearer that this is a description, not an assignment.
- matwood 2y agoBut I keep getting told by Trump voters that he doesn't mean anything he says. /s
- Melting_Harps 2y ago> It'll be a moot point soon, DoJ will be too busy dragging Democrat bodies through the streets to quote the probable future AG. And you're not worried of the 2 trillion the future man of 'effective efficiency' [Effective altruism pun intended here as these are all of the same ilk) slashing any and all jobs that pose a threat to his fiefdoms with their pesky unions or workers rights? The guy litterly piloted the slash and burn everything in sight to cut costs and 'get lean' which every other lemming C-exec followed in tandem. Honestly, this DoJ under Khan simply didn't go far enough to gut them and you guys were too busy gorging at the trough to unionize when you had momentum, so now you too will feel the wrath of these corpo-raiders who hallowed out midlle America to save a buck and a bonus now that 'AI can make you a rockstar programmer' and you will be expected to 10x every review or you're put on PIP. It's hard to feel sorry for you, you did this to yourselves and didn't push back when you had the leverage. It's funny, what I see is he will put tariff exemptions on his corps given just how much they rely on global supplies to make a Tesla and lots of stuff from SpaceX like optics are supplied by foreign companies. Because, hey if the crooks who voted for bailouts and golden parachutes did it, why can't he? The best the 'Chief Scientist/CEO' can do is tell it's Taiwanese suppliers to go to Thailand [0],so as to not disrupt the flow of goods due to pesky things like invasion/annihilation from the CCP, which unless I'm mistaken will still be subject to those hefty tariffs they went on about throughout the campaign. 0: https://www.manufacturing.net/aerospace/news/22925817/spacex-tells-taiwanese-suppliers-to-shift-production-off-the-island https://www.manufacturing.net/aerospace/news/22925817/spacex...
- rsynnott 2y ago> It's funny, what I see is he will put tariff exemptions on his corps given just how much they rely on global supplies to make a Tesla and lots of stuff from SpaceX like optics are supplied by foreign companies. I mean, the US's courts are somewhat compromised from Trump's previous run, but probably not compromised enough to let _that_ fly.
- lenkite 2y agoI mean the current Attorney General had no problems dragging opposition through the streets and breaking the rules of his own office by appointing sweetheart special counsels - so payback is a bitch, I guess.
- supernova87a 2y agoEmployees are free to speak to each other about pay and work issues. Apple isn't obligated to help facilitate that over company-owned channels that are for work communications. edit: I'm not going to delete this idea just because people who want a thing to go their way disagree with it. And it's not right that this opinion has been flagged.
- mdhb 2y agoIn the same way you aren’t obligated to spend your free time running around defending the world’s richest company’s quest to limit workers rights but yet here you are.
- eru 2y agoIs that a statement about morality or about legality?
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- kalleboo 2y agoIt's a non-sequitur though, since the complaints include Apple telling employees to take down social media posts and not to participate on online surveys.
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- yellow_lead 2y agoAshley Gjovik also has many claims against Apple. Legal battle has been going on for years now. Stories were posted here previously. https://mstdn.social/@ashleygjovik@mastodon.social https://mstdn.social/@ashleygjovik@mastodon.social
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- makoto12 2y agobit rich to call them beggars, when most expect their news for free
- sangnoir 2y agoTellingly, the propaganda and AI slop are free. The combination of democracy and capitalism has a multitude of failure modes.
- iamacyborg 2y agoIsn’t the beggar in this context the person who wants to benefit from someone else's labour for free?
- kunley 2y agoI don't _need_ their news, was interested in what somebody else finds interesting and looks like that other person _needed_ this particular news source, so keep in mind that your attribution of begging is rather a symptom of trying to play smartass on the internet. By the way, that last consultancy from me is for free, without subscription; but just one time. You guys should really thing of promoting better quality of your sources, instead of spreading cliches about who should pay for what.
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