Man Bites Dog: Mega-Corporation Says It's OK With Its Workers Unionizing
Today on TAP: Parting company with almost every other U.S. big business, Microsoft says it won’t oppose employee unionization.
BY HAROLD MEYERSON JUNE 15, 2022
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Amazon is calling the cops to arrest union organizers. Starbucks is firing them. But the other globally famous Washington state–based corporation, Microsoft, is breaking ranks not just with Amazon and Starbucks, but with virtually the entirety of American business, both big and small.
If its employees want to unionize, Microsoft says, that’s fine.
In a June 2nd blog post, Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote that the company would not discourage or delay its workers from forming or joining unions. Then, on Monday of this week, the company made a joint announcement with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) that if a majority of employees at Activision Blizzard, which Microsoft is in the process of purchasing for $70 billion, signed union affiliation cards, it would recognize that union. It would not oppose that effort; it would not subject workers to anti-union arguments; it would not insist on a follow-up election (a redundancy that every other U.S. company in a similar position would certainly insist upon).
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/man-bites-dog-mega-corporation-says-its-ok-with-its-workers-unionizing-microsoft/
