Court documents show Google ran a campaign from 2018 to 2020 to “convince” staff that “unions suck”; Google refuses a judge's order to produce more documents
employee resource groups and other tools deployed by corporate diversity initiatives are technologies of union-busting. https://twitter.com/... Daisuke Wakabayashi / @daiwaka : In documents that Google sought privileged confidentiality, the company sought out consultants to convince employees that “unions suck” as well as a “respected voice” to undermine unionization efforts but without its fingerprints. https://www.nytimes.com/... Meredith Whittaker / @mer__edith : This is odious and gross. It's also another example of how bad Google's exec strategy is. This failed SPECTACULARLY. 2018-2020 is exactly when the dam broke, and tech workers at Google and beyond realized unions were amazing. https://www.vice.com/...
documents also reveal “the decision to hire IRI was not made by lawyers but by a group composed primarily of non-attorneys” including Silverstein, Google's human resources director and Danielle Brown, Google's VP of employee engagement (she led D&I too). https://www.vice.com/...
New: court records shed light on a highly secretive anti-union program at Google called “Project Vivian.” The program was explicitly to make workers think “that unions suck,” a top executive said https://www.vice.com/...
For two years, Google ran a secret project that the company's director of employment law, Michael Pfyl, described as an initiative “to engage employees more positively and convince them that unions suck.” https://www.vice.com/...
INTERESTING reading that Google's anti-union campaign Project Vivian wanted a “respected” voice to pen an anti-union op-ed if “there would be no fingerprints and not Google specific” makes me wonder how often other tech companies have done this already https://www.vice.com/...
Via the subpoenas we learn that Google wanted to hire a respected “voice” to act as an Astroturfer against Unions. Hope the judge order helps us uncover this person that sold the movement for 30 silver coins: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Google wrongly claimed attorney-client privilege to protect documents subpoenaed in a National Labor Relations Board case filed by former employees who say the company fired them because of their unionization efforts, a labor judge has ruled. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Glad to see it underlined that Google is blatantly using lawyers as high-priced PR consultants to attempt to take advantage of confidentiality. Thankfully we get to read the exchanges (this time) anyway. https://twitter.com/...
Truly excellent when the head of diversity and inclusion is involved in hiring IRI, an anti-union firm. This echos something that @lizthegrey taught me — employee resource groups and other tools deployed by corporate diversity initiatives are technologies of union-busting. https:…
In documents that Google sought privileged confidentiality, the company sought out consultants to convince employees that “unions suck” as well as a “respected voice” to undermine unionization efforts but without its fingerprints. https://www.nytimes.com/...
This is odious and gross. It's also another example of how bad Google's exec strategy is. This failed SPECTACULARLY. 2018-2020 is exactly when the dam broke, and tech workers at Google and beyond realized unions were amazing. https://www.vice.com/...