The former employee, Kathryn Spiers, wrote in a blog post published on Tuesday morning that she had been fired on Friday for creating an internal pop-up notification that let her fellow employees know about their union organizing rights when visiting the website of IRI Consultants, a company contracted by Google to help its anti-union push.
The details of the settlement between Google and the six employees, one of whom still works at Google, is under a non-disclosure agreement. None of the four fired workers will be reinstated, and the documents will not be made public.
Yet Another Google Employee Says She Was Fired for Organizing
Since then, Google fired both employees, as well as two others involved in the initial protest. But now, those fired former-Googlers plan to file labor charges against the tech giant, accusing the company of letting them go for engaging in protected labor organizing.
Berg says those warnings were delivered through mandatory sessions between managers and employees, known as captive audience meetings, although Starbucks denies that the meetings were mandatory. The National Labor Relations Board has moved to ban captive audience meetings as an unfair labor practice.
Starbucks denies engaging in illegal anti-union activities, including at other stores where worker organizers have been fired. Starbucks says the workers in question were fired for violating company policies. The NLRB has issued formal complaints against Starbucks in a couple such cases, calling the actions were retaliatory. In Arizona, the NLRB has sued Starbucks to have three workers reinstated.
To file a complaint with KDOL under Section 1 of 2021 Special Session H.B. 2001, you must be an employee aggrieved of a violation of Section 1 of 2021 Special Session H.B. 2001 by your employer who is in the state of Kansas. You may not file a complaint on behalf of another employee or for an employer who you are not employed by.
Before the 2017-18 season, a tense front-office situation provided another glimpse into interactions with Sarver employees felt were racially insensitive. Late in the previous season, point guard Eric Bledsoe had been benched in a tanking effort led by Sarver, former basketball operations staffers said. Issues with the benching percolated into the offseason, when Bledsoe was eligible for a contract extension.
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