Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s immensely satisfying that we’re entering another era of strikes. As they get more common it’ll trigger a domino effect that will pervade our entire work culture.

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  • wolf6152@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oppressed workers see another industry get some relief and positive gains and they think to themselves, “why not us too?”

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All thanks to end game capitalism where the wage gaps between the top and bottom are incredibly vast.

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  • SuiXi3D@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One can hope.

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• ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Don’t be evil”

  Unless people want to be paid.

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  • ChaosCharlie@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Don’t be evil*

    *some restrictions may apply”

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  String 'em up. If you haven’t Degoogled your life what are you waiting for? Throw convenience to the fire and dance to the cycles of the moon again.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ya but what’s the alternative? You only have a few large players in any space Google operates in and guaranteed they’re no better in terms of wages and worker rights.

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are multiple alternatives to everything google offers. It may not offer it under one account and place like google, but its better than feeding the beast trying to swallow the internet.

      LibreOffice for an office suite, KeyPass as a password manager, firefox and its derivatives for non-chromium browsers. There are plenty of options that do not contribute to the downfall of the open web.

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    • WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Check out /e/OS and if you have a pixel Grapheme OS and Calyx OS

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• MooseBoys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  These workers are contracted by Cognizant, one of the many subcontractors which works with Google and its parent company Alphabet. … However, Google has refused to bargain with them, because it says it is not legally considered to be their employer. The workers, the union, and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) contest this point.

  Unfortunately the workers don’t really have a case against Google here. Don’t get me wrong - “vendor” companies are parasites and often serve only to avoid paying full benefits to those whom companies would otherwise need to hire as full-time employees. But there’s decades of established law that says they are not, in fact, employed by the contractor. Without changing the law, vendor employees won’t be considered transitively employed by the contractor by any court.

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• halfempty@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is against the law in the US for a company to refuse collective bargaining with a union. NLRB will be involved.

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