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by brdd 2254 days ago
There's a lot of misunderstanding in general, I think, about the rights that employees have under labor relations laws, and how those laws are routinely broken.

For example, up until very recently (December 2019, when a Republican-led NLRB overturned a previous 2014 ruling) it was expressly required that employees at a company be allowed to use email in order to unionize and organize.

In fact, in general there are still quite a few protections afforded to organizing workers -- even with recent rulings. The rule is that policies cannot discriminate on content. For example, if employees are allowed to use a work Google Calendar to plan birthday parties and events, then they must be allowed to use the same calendar to unionize. If employees have a workplace bulletin board where they can post about Girl Scout cookie sales or anything else personal, then they must be allowed to use that same bulletin board to post about unionization.