• huginn@feddit.it
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    2 months ago

    Having worked at Google there wasn’t any anti-unuon propaganda or anything: it was just genuinely the best work environment I’d ever experienced… Right up until they laid me off.

    So while I was there the thought of joining a union would have been “meh - what can they realistically get me?” and after the layoff was “oh yeah right they could’ve gotten me protection”

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      2 months ago

      Exactly. You don’t join it for workplace perks, you join it for protection against unfair practices.

      You have your fire insurance, your car insurance,life insurance. To me, a union is a work insurance. Always have been unionised and I always will be.

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        2 months ago

        To be fair to my naive past self: it was the first mass layoff at Google, ever.

        Based on my friends still there: the vibes are decidedly less trusting all around.