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Union Busters Coming After Me
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- spelk 3mo agoThis is honestly hilarious and I applaud the excellent use of Claude Code for the malicious compliance with their demands.
- JumpCrisscross 3mo ago> malicious compliance This isn't malicious compliance. It's over-the-top compliance. He has no requirement to comply with their random demands. He does anyway.
- cognitiveinline 3mo agoI wonder how this will be received. Since AI has come up, I think pro-union sentiment has been at a an all time high. How do you feel, HN?
- gunalx 3mo agoAmazing. Next is automating this, automatically or manually gathering all domains they have registered, and spinning up Claude to register a similar domain and creating the counter website.
- elicash 3mo agoThis is the attorney who runs https://nlrbresearch.com https://nlrbresearch.com (which is run on Datasette) and the AI assistant (Claude Skill) that is tied to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOa3Pc8RD40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOa3Pc8RD40
- josefritzishere 3mo agoThis is delightful. I know he's not paid to do this but I would gladly donate to this.
- JumpCrisscross 3mo agoA cancer center [1] is resorting to these tactics? Based in Seattle?! Here is their leadership team and Board: https://www.fredhutch.org/en/about/about-the-hutch/leadership.html https://www.fredhutch.org/en/about/about-the-hutch/leadershi.... If you're in the area, or if you know a patient, I'd e-mail them a copy of this blog post. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hutchinson_Cancer_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hutchinson_Cancer_Center
- gilfaethwy 3mo agoOf course they are. It's a good reminder that non-profits are very often just an arm of capital, whatever their legal status is, and that they will exercise capital's authority to try to suppress workers' rights.
- mrguyorama 3mo agoUS management culture is the same everywhere.
- justin66 3mo agoPaying the worker bees more because they've unionized might potentially take money away from the nonprofit's important mission. Not to mention the salaries of senior staff, who are paid over a million dollars a year. [0] [0] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/911935159 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/911...
- IAmBroom 3mo agoSome are missing your (also missing) "/s".
- silexia 3mo agoUnions destroy innovation and change in businesses. Look at how teachers unions fight against performance based pay and make it impossible to fire bad teachers. I love that cancer centers are resisting communism.
- a34729t 3mo agoOooooh this is great.
- cliglot 3mo agoBetter get yourself a gun.
- cucumber3732842 3mo agoHe's being harassed by a law firm, not the mob. If someone shows up to do him harm they will be from the government because the law firm will have contrived government process to that end. Shooting at them while they're on the clock is generally not wise.
- 20after4 3mo agoIt's not that far fetched to assume that someone could be in physical danger after ruffling the feathers of a company that has hired a union busting firm. Union Busters have a long history of employing gun violence against striking workers.
- josefritzishere 3mo agoI would agree. The history of union busting is full of examples a violence by the union busters via private contracts and government agencies. There are probably more violent, than non-violent examples.
- IAmBroom 3mo agoThe Pinkerton Agency is basically a murder-for-hire company, historically. They generally only cater to corporate customers, so politicians kept their eyes turned elsewhere.
- schlauerfox 3mo agoThey mostly switched to ruining your life but it's got a long history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_United_States_labor_disputes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_Unite... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence_in_the_Uni...
- gonight 3mo agoThis is the spirit we need more of, good to see nerds causing a ruckus.
- LoganDark 3mo ago> When I asked them whether they believe those are IP infringements, I was told that they don’t answer hypothetical questions. Huh, I've never seen this strategy before.