On: Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale

[jdmoreira]

What world is this where companies hire union-busting mercenaries? Is this the Pinkertons in 2021? What kind of lawless place is the US where you can hire services to stop unionisation?

[hemloc_io → jdmoreira]

Ha! The Pinkertons are still around in 2021, and working quite hard.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...

[leereeves → jdmoreira]

> What world is this were companies hire union-busting mercenaries? Is this the Pinkertons in 2021?

Excellent example of how this headline can mislead people. They're lawyers "hired to review Activision’s policies", not armed thugs who bust union skulls.

[rtkwe → leereeves]

The modern equivalent is much less violent but it's still very aggressively union busting by disrupting organization.

[r00fus → leereeves]

No, they just advise what internal tactics to use, and where to hire said external resources.

[leereeves → r00fus]

> they just advise...where to hire said external resources [mercenaries]

Do you have some evidence for that allegation or are you just making things up?

That would be quite serious, and illegal, if it's true. If it's true.

[r00fus → leereeves]

Modern companies rarely use [mercenaries] as you put it.

Instead it's reputation management firms for the alleged perpetrators and investigators that dredge up personal info about the victims who reported abuses.

It's a well known approach.

[leereeves → r00fus]

"Mercenaries" is the word the comment I replied to used. I thought when you wrote "said external resources" you were responding to that conversation.