The union is less than a month old. It seems like a bad sign if it's already breaking away from its parent organization (CWA).
Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
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Re: Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
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It's not that simple to create an effective professional union you need to hire specific skills there is a limit to what lay officers/activists can do in there free time. Just remaining within the absolute letter of the law is complex and panties for failure can be heavy - I know I have dealt with this aspect in the UK.
As a tech worker in the US, the prospect of some form of a tech employee associatation seems like the right way to go. - Employees are regularly screwed on misrepresented equity compensation - Employees are expected to work uncompensated on-call shifts which vary from "doesn't affect me" to "impossible to function on" such as being paged once per hour for 1 week with the expectation to do it again in a weeks time. -…
Actually all of those issues are exactly what Unions representing mangers and professionals do in the UK work on.
I have seen a lot of cases relating to "PRP" and Performance reviews.
Re: Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
#73> As a so-called minority union, it isn’t recognized by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and can’t require Alphabet or its subsidiaries like Google to negotiate a contract for its members. Can someone explain this? What would be the requirement to be non-minority union?
That they have a majority of workers in that category on their side. Since they have a few hundred and Google have tens of thousands of software engineers in USA they are pretty far from becoming a majority union.
Re: Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
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According to the actual covid death rates, infection rates, and projections, Sweden is doing about as well as the rest of Europe, and much, much better than the US: https://covid19.healthdata.org/sweden?view=total-deaths&tab=... I’m not sure why Tegnell gets so much hate for doing a softer economic shutdown, and getting similar results as more draconian approaches. As a bonus, projections say they’ll hit herd immunit…
Covid is transmitted by interpersonal contact, and Sweden has a low population density. There is no equivalent of the Boston/NYC/DC megalopolis, Greater Los Angeles, or even the Bay Area in Sweden. Frankly, there isn't an equivalent of most of central Europe. See this map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Population_density_b... So for Sweden to be doing about as well (in deaths per capita) as the rest of Euro…
Totally this - especially when compared to the nearest neighbours - Finland, Norway and Denmark.