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Google security engineer says she was fired for daring to remind Googlers they do indeed have labor rights

Cederic Silver badge

Re: Can someone please explain...

It gets messy and I'm not entirely sure of the precise details, but approximately an employer will agree with a union to only give work to members of that union. Want a job? Join the union.

This is an interesting read into the impacts of unionisation and includes examples of unions demanding that non-union members are not employed:

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/working-with-unions-flipped/

Suffice to say, I'll never make a film in California. Why would I want to deal with that nonsense?

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