The tech giants’ rhetoric approximately looking after staff does not reflect how employees are treated. It’s vital that workers organise
• Chi Onwurah is a Labour MPI spent 20 years in industry before entering politics,and my first job was with a Canadian company called Northern Telecom. It championed the principle of valuing employees as partners, viewing workers as “the primary source of productivity gains”.
But when it came to rights – well, or it was hardly a bastion of socialism. When I asked where I should recede to join a union the look on the HR woman’s face has stayed with me to this day.
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Source: theguardian.com