Google and Unions: What? Unions!
August 31, 2019
DarkCyber noted “Google Contractors Are Unionizing with a Steel Workers Union.” The main idea is that people who take money from Google want protection or influence or maybe a voice. The write up states:
66 percent of the eligible contractors at a company called HCL America Inc., signed cards seeking union representation, according to the United Steel Workers union. With the help of the Pittsburgh Association of Technical Professions (PATP), they’re asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for a vote on union representation. The PATP is a project sponsored by the union aimed at “helping Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania workers in high-tech fields organize and bargain collectively.”
Google does not seem to be eager to do much more than be Googley. If the unionization effort succeeds, DarkCyber believes that those representing the contractors will not be impressed with Googley.
There are quite a few issues which this union thing embraces.
We noted this statement:
In some instances, contractors do the same work as employees but are paid less and get fewer benefits. In other scenarios, the contractors are doing “ghost work” because they’re erased entirely as their labor is presented as the product of “artificial intelligence.”
Does this mean that Google is misrepresenting its technology?
DarkCyber thinks that the GOOG may do some efficiency analysis and terminate the workers and move the contracted work to more hospitable locations. Occam that at your next rally, semi Googlers. And if there’s a better, higher paying job, take it. DarkCyber knows that Pittsburgh is a technical hot spot with Carnegie Mellon for engineering and Duquesne University for accessing the epistemology of ethical behavior.
Stephen E Arnold, August 31, 2019
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Interesting, Unions can be beneficial to business. But only if they have the interest of the business at heart. A rarity in America. I was asked by management to take a store worker to lunch and find out his plans for unionizing the store workers. Retail stores worked everyone 39.5 hrs a week. No benefits ever paid. Management told me, “Keep them poor, then you have control over their lives.” All commissioned sales people were shorted their pay every payday. If they could not prove through receipts they kept, the store short paid the worker. That policy add to their profits. The quality of customer service was poor, the store no longer exists, ADG.