Culture Buzzfeed fails to prevent employees from unionising

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Breaking media news from the Central Arbitration Committee: Buzzfeed has failed in its bid to prevent its employees from forming a union chapel. Buzzfeed management hired pricey lawyers from Matrix Chambers to essentially argue that they had laid off so many staff that the number supporting collective bargaining had fallen below the 50% threshold. Buzzfeed staff reading today’s judgement will be left wondering if bosses fired pro-unionisation employees to prevent them from forming a chapel…

The Employer stated that the restructuring process was completed today and as of the close of business a total of 22 people within the company had left BuzzFeed. The Employer believed that a number of those who left the business after requesting voluntary redundancy, were members of the Union. The Employer further stating that “this fundamental change to the proposed bargaining unit may have a significant impact on the density of union members and support within the proposed bargaining unit for recognition.”

Two Buzzfeed journalists – Kelly Oakes and Francis Whittaker – gave evidence on behalf of the union. Both were then let go…

The committee came to a decision today that the threshold favouring recognition had been met and so the application for collective bargaining to be recognised should proceed. Buzzfeed spent big bucks trying to stop this from happening, and failed…
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https://order-order.com/2018/02/05/buzzfeed-fails-in-legal-bid-to-prevent-employees-from-unionising/
 
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  1. A union chapel? I've never heard that before
  2. Even under Trump, Buzzfeed is going to get BTFO if they've been firing people in retaliation for unionizizing, which I think they just admitted to.
 
Splendid Meat Sticks dijo:
  1. A union chapel? I've never heard that before
  2. Even under Trump, Buzzfeed is going to get BTFO if they've been firing people in retaliation for unionizizing, which I think they just admitted to.
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Is this actually illegal? Healthy Unions can only ever exist if the demands of the Union itself are weighed against the worth of the participating workers, that's the whole point. Never been in a field shitty enough to need to Unionize, though, so I'm not too familiar with the relevant laws.
 
I thought it was skeevy that the CEO of Buzzfeed wouldn't allow unions because he said "Buzzfeed didn't need a union" even though many of its employees felt otherwise. I'm glad they were able to unionize, even though it seems like they can't do much with it.
 
Autopsy dijo:
Is this actually illegal? Healthy Unions can only ever exist if the demands of the Union itself are weighed against the worth of the participating workers, that's the whole point. Never been in a field shitty enough to need to Unionize, though, so I'm not too familiar with the relevant laws.
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You can't retaliate against workers for various things. In most states, that would include things like discussing allegations of hiring discrimination, for example.

In some states, attempting to unionize might be protected as well.
 
jace821 dijo:
I'm shocked that limousine liberal business owners don't want their business to be unionized but want to force other businesses to.
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It's pretty standard, like they want everyone else's kids bused to an integrated school, but send their own kids to private schools, they want black people to be able to move to any neighborhood they want to, except the one they live in, they want carbon emissions set for the plebs driving cars while they fly around in jets, sometimes private, etc. etc. etc.
 
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