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Unionized Google workers learned their jobs were over while testifying to Austin City Council about why they need higher pay (fortune.com)
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[–] [S] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The city council video where they find out they're laid off: https://youtu.be/pZBtjNGes6s

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The comments on that video. Yikes.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "AKSCHUALLY they were technically Cognizant employees on a limited contract so everything's fine" - random asshole or paid Google lickspittle

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    or paid Google lickspittle

    Almost zero chance it's that. They don't need to pay people to do it when they know people are more than willing to do it for free due to a lifetime of capitalist indoctrination.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They may not need to, but that doesn't mean they aren't. There seems to be an inverse relationship between wealth and skin thickness, which would make that of Google translucent..

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    It only makes sense.

    When you're poor and not powerful, you get shit on daily and you grow a certain impervious callous to the constant assaults.

    When you're rich and powerful, nobody ever tells you no, so the slightest of criticism is entirely strange and foreign and therefore unacceptable.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Eh, I think the consequences if they got caught out doing this would far outweigh the tiny benefits they get from it. Not to mention how incredibly easy it would be to get caught.

    Compare to other levers they could pull, like a small change in the YouTube algorithm to favour anti-union content. Which would have a far more wide-reaching impact, and would be far harder to prove causation.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    consequences if they got caught out doing this

    You mean like when Amazon was caught doing it and there was a couple days of memes and then nothing? I think Google could weather that breeze..

    As for that other lever, I'm pretty sure they've pulled it many times already 🤷

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    • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Wow... so what now?

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    [+] -70 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    What the fuck you talking about. That fucking Google. I make 18.50 and don't have a degree our work in tech. And I don't live in a city that has high cost of living. You out your mind saying 19 is good enough?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In what realm is $19/hr "lucky" wages? And who is working an office job for $11??

    Gas station employees and fast food employees make $15/hr here and I'm in one of the most affordable cities in the US. Office work starts at around $20 for low skill positions.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    $19 is sickeningly low regardless of whether or not it is typical. It tells me Google hearkens yearns for the conditions of the Great Depression like Ford and Disney.

    The ownership class will tremble before a communist revolution, but even that is better than the fury of the famished masses coming for aristocratic heads.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    $19 is fucking nothing. Minimum wage adjusted for inflation would have been around $26 an hour several years ago. That's just a liveable wage. Wage increases are supposed to be from the bottom up. Pretty much guaranteed if you aren't an exec who needs the amount they earn slashed you are underpaid.

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