• @[email protected]
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      Edit: cause some jackass is implying I’m a bot - I should have joined a union and a union would’ve protected me from the mass layoff in '23 but that doesn’t change that while there I never thought about needing a union because it was such a nice place otherwise.

      As someone who previously worked at Google - they didn’t have any antiunion propaganda.

      They just, like, paid well, had top tier benefits, great perks, and had a good work life balance.

      • @[email protected]
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        56 hours ago

        That’s the other option, of course: If your employees are happy, they don’t need to form a union to press complaints.

      • Redjard
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        15 hours ago

        which also references an effort to use the media to quietly disseminate Google’s point of view about unionized tech workplaces.

        Bogas’ order references an effort by Google executives, including corporate counsel Christina Latta, to “find a ‘respected voice to publish an op-ed outlining what a unionized tech workplace would look like,” and urging employees of Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google not to unionize.

        in an internal message Google human resources director Kara Silverstein told Latta that she liked the idea, “but that it should be done so that there ‘would be no fingerprints and not Google specific.’”

        From the article posted by 100_kg_90_de_belin.

        Google seemingly does care about their internal image, so they will only make their actions obvious when they fire you for bogus reasons after wanting to join a union.
        Quite nasty in that they give you no hints about how extreme their efforts on this are. They monitor internal employee tools like they are cosplaying the NSA, but you wouldn’t know before you are fired out of the blue.

    • Avid AmoebaOP
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      4412 hours ago

      This is likely the case with GM given that their manufacturing is unionised. Engineers just got a demo what that can do for them last year. They aren’t getting the raise assembly workers got.

    • @[email protected]
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      2011 hours ago

      Silicon valley is full of H1B visa holders who can’t speak up politically or risk deportation.

      • @[email protected]
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        35 hours ago

        This makes a lot of sense. I can definitely see those companies at the bottom having way more H1B workers than the ones st the top.