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Some stories you might see in retaliation against the @AlphabetWorkers news:
-the union is racist/sexist/ableist/homophobic
-the union is just entitled kids looking to virtue signal
-the organizers are bullies, pressuring people into joining
It’s all bullshit. Don’t buy it.
-the union is racist/sexist/ableist/homophobic
-the union is just entitled kids looking to virtue signal
-the organizers are bullies, pressuring people into joining
It’s all bullshit. Don’t buy it.
The actual demographics of the union don’t matter. Management and their boot lickers in the commentariat will find a way to suggest the union is racist or sexist. They might dig up past problematic stuff from organizers or do what Kickstarter mgmt did and just invent accusations
They’ll say that Unions are only for “working class” people. That tech workers are just being dramatic. They make so much money! They don’t need a union! That’s trash. Tom Hanks? Has a union. Lebron James? Has a union. You deserve what they have.
Bosses have always called union organizers thugs. At Kickstarter, with the sweetest softest union organizers you can imagine, it was no different. Take a colleague out for coffee and explain union election law? You’re a bully. Mgmt will use anything to cast you as a villain.
Google is rich, powerful, and sophisticated. Expect to see union busting chatter and press that’s hard to tie back to them directly. Don’t be a sucker and give mgmt the benefit of the doubt. You can’t scare me. I’m sticking with the union. Solidarity forever.
It’s starting: see how subtle this is? On the surface it looks like they support labor rights! But it casts the unions as “indirect” (bad) as opposed to business as usual which is “direct” (good). Once you notice this stuff, it’s easy to see through their corp comms bullshit. https://twitter.com/alphabetworkers/status/1346140384368316416
Another great example of narrative tactic #2. Bosses and their allies (like this mega shit head) say this about ANY union drive. They said it to coal miners too. “You’re doing fine. You shouldn’t complain.” Also notice how the SJ vocab of “appropriation” can be used against you. https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1346142918600437760
We got hit by the exact same line at Kickstarter. The No Committee (mgmt stooges on staff that publicly take up an anti-union stance) wrote an all@ email accusing us of “appropriating union culture.” The idiocy and gall of it seem extraordinary, but it’s very common. Plan for it.
And just before the day is over we have the first example of tactic #1: calling the union racist. Notice again, similar to the “appropriation” language, how they use woke vocabulary against the material effort to democratize the workplace. https://twitter.com/amrtgaber/status/1346170857228361728
Union busters like this person are infuriating because their performance can easily confuse the trusting or gullible. Here’s a trick: if you wanna know what someone actually believes, ignore what they say, but watch what they do. Who your enemies and allies are will become clear.
Union busting is an industry and this is how the big players play. https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdqaz/lazy-money-oriented-single-mother-how-union-busting-firms-compile-dossiers-on-employees
