Solar employees join UAW, management hires anti-union consultants with "96% success rate" and lays off 40% of workforce - claims not union-busting
Solar employees join UAW, management hires anti-union consultants with "96% success rate" and lays off 40% of workforce - claims not union-busting
EmPower Solar suspended 40% of its workforce but says action is unrelated to recent successful election of workers to join UAW
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In the wake of its decision to furlough workers, EmPower had several job postings on its website, including for solar installers.
55 0 ReplyPeople should mass apply to those postings and waste their time.
28 0 Replyis more efficient to make bot
14 0 ReplyTrue but if they realize that lots of applications are fake they can just filter out the fakes by the IP address. Unless you use a botnet. Which is not legal.
5 0 ReplyTor or other ip randomizer services are legal
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It would sure be a shame if someone started flooding the job postings with fake applicants. I’ve heard of this happening before and it’s quite disruptive, wouldn’t cha know.
22 0 ReplyIf the workers were truly "laid off" then they've got first dibs on being re-hired, right?
(...right?)
Maybe it's time for the Department of Labor to make sure that gets enforced.
22 0 ReplyThat's commonly in a union contract...
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