Organizing To Improve Your Workplace: Know Your Rights
summary
Overview of legal rights and concrete organizing steps with examples and outcomes: details on NDAs and forced arbitration, contractor misclassification with 121,000 temps vs 102,000 full‑time at Google, statistics like women offered lower pay in 60% of cases and Black women earning 89 cents on the dollar, employer tactics and spending $340M annually on union avoidance, step‑by‑step union process, and recent wins and numbers — Kickstarter votes 46–37 to unionize, Glitch recognizes a union after >90% support, and Google drops forced arbitration.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Start
- 1:16The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
- 1:38The Ludlow Massacre
- 3:13Why Tech Workers Specifically Might Want To Organize
- 5:10Non-Disclosure Agreements
- 10:19What Kind of Changes Could Tech Workers Make if We Organized for the Common Good
- 14:05Protected Concerted Activity
- 15:07The Google Walkout
- 16:01Forming a Union
- 16:12Step One Is Talking to Your Co-Workers
- 16:55Step Two Is Building an Organizing Committee
- 17:26Generating Majority Support
- 18:52Step Four Holding an Election
- 19:26Card Check
- 20:04Negotiating a Contract
- 21:35Labor Disputes Are Settled by the National Labor Relations Board
- 24:07Why We See Unions as More Restrictive than Companies
- 24:28Why Does the Dictatorship Essentially Have a Traditional Corporate Form Feel Less Restrictive than the Democracy of a Union
- 28:47List of Resources and Organizations
- 29:37United Steelworkers
- 30:16Tech Worker Organizations
- 30:35Game Workers Unite
- 35:02Joining the Outreach Effort
- 41:07Hope for Building the Union
- 48:03Building a Wrongful Termination Case
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