Google Contract Staff Reach Union Deal Banning Keystroke Monitoring (www.bloomberg.com)
from chobeat@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world on 18 Dec 21:45
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Dec 23:03 next collapse

I hate to say it but god damn if this is what you have to get a union to fight for in tech jobs, tech jobs need unions more than manual labor jobs, actually.

gcheliotis@lemmy.world on 19 Dec 00:18 next collapse

I didn’t even know that was a thing :(

200ok@lemmy.world on 19 Dec 03:18 collapse

How much do unions cost?

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br on 19 Dec 03:59 next collapse

Union dues are an investment.

Edit: Op coward, edited the comment from “imagine the union dues 💀” like an Amazon bot.

weker01@sh.itjust.works on 19 Dec 05:06 next collapse

Why are you wondering?

[deleted] on 19 Dec 16:18 collapse

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Passerby6497@lemmy.world on 19 Dec 07:18 next collapse

Less than the value unions provide

luciferofastora@lemmy.zip on 22 Dec 07:52 collapse

My union costs 1% of my monthly salary. This year, they threatened to strike and got us a 5% raise that way. And that’s just talking about money, not other benefits like paid time off (30 days per year).

CriticalMiss@lemmy.world on 19 Dec 07:37 collapse

Yeah, it’s rough. Highly recommend you read “You Deserve a Tech Union” by Ethan Marcotte if you work in tech. It is needed now more than ever.

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Dec 06:05 next collapse

How this should be negotiated in any company. No employee can be held liable for any security breaches that ever take place, and we cannot be insured as NO ONE can/should ever know another user’s credentials. If you are keeping track of keystrokes, you are recording every username and password…

Joker@sh.itjust.works on 19 Dec 13:16 next collapse

Legal paywall free link: bnnbloomberg.ca/…/google-contract-staff-reaches-u…

kautau@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 04:08 collapse

“As we’ve said before, we don’t employ these Accenture workers, so it’s a matter between them and Accenture,” Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini said in an emailed statement.

“It’s cheaper for us to outsource this labor and as long as Accenture doesn’t try to renegotiate our contract we give fuck-all what happens.”

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 19 Dec 15:45 collapse

Is there a community for got-a-stroke titles?

intensely_human@lemm.ee on 20 Dec 01:57 collapse

You might have low blood sugar. That title reads perfectly fine to me.

kautau@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 04:05 collapse

The Capitalization Of Each Word Is Annoying But Yes, It’s Grammatically Fine

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 20 Dec 09:04 collapse

Except the missing words and punctuation. Like

Google Contract Staff has Reached an Union Deal**,** Banning Keystroke Monitoring

Edit: markup not working on ,?

kautau@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 09:50 next collapse

Where is there a missing vowel?

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 20 Dec 09:59 collapse

My bad, not vowels, english is not my first language. What was the name of at, an, to, etc.?

wraithcoop@lemmy.one on 20 Dec 16:41 collapse

an is an article and at and to are prepositions

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 20 Dec 17:24 collapse

Using the imperative form of the verb is totally fine, and it makes the headline feel more active.

The missing article is also a fairly common omission in headlines. That said, if they included it, they would use the US form, so “a union” instead of the British form, “an union.”

intensely_human@lemm.ee on 21 Dec 02:06 collapse

This headline doesn’t use the imperative voice. It uses the present tense.