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Google lays off contractors who unionized last month | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
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[–] [email protected] 156 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Union busting is as American as apple pie.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The first recorded recipe for apple pie was written in 1381 in England.

Apple Pie Is Not All That American

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

An import thriving in the US? That is about as American as it gets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I also came here to say this. Also I hear "Dutch apple pie" a lot, but never "American apple pie". "American Pie" though, that I hear occasionally 😉

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How can we change this?

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By unionization..... The stronger the labour force is, the less they are able to get pushed around like this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well yes. My question is how can we change union busting, because that’s what the article is about.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

By unionizing.

To afford good lawyers in order to fight back, unions need money, which requires more members to pay union dues.

To keep politicians honest and to credibly threaten their electibility, unions need more members that can be politically mobilized.

It's a feedback loop. The more people unionize, the more powerful unions become and the more powerful unions become, the more they can protect people who unionize.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

If all the employees are in a union, you can’t get rid of all the unions without getting rid of all the employees.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well we did it once back in the Appalachian mountains.....

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Get everyone to do it. Division is the enemy.