Of course. How much has Larry Ellison given to TBI at this point?

Low quality article from The Guardian. Pretty much entirely composed of quotes from the family with no independent corroboration. According to The Canary (so take it with a pinch of salt) a former Guardian journalist recently admitted to publishing a wholly false anti-Iran story back in 2010 so I’m a bit more skeptical than usual.

I tried finding more detail and it was mostly trash sites republishing the same content but I did find this article from an Iranian human rights group based in the US (again, pinch of salt) that has some more detail. According to them these twins are part of the “Isfahan Shohada Square case”.

16 citizens were arrested and prosecuted on charges including “moharebeh (enmity against God) through carrying bladed weapons,” “destruction of public property,” “assembly and collusion,” and “propaganda against the regime.”

It’s a bit murky. I don’t really know what to make of it. Are these inflated charges against legitimate protesters or is there more to it?

If I can find this context through a quick Google though why can’t The Guardian?

What I am saying is that based on this twitter spat I would not call her a holocaust denier. You are free to make your own judgment.

Thanks for the source although I think that’s quite specific. It seems mostly about her being ignorant and doubling down on her war against trans people rather than a blanket denial of the holocaust which the term “holocaust denier” conjures

Your article frames it this way:

While Rowling has not denied the Holocaust itself happened, she is accused of engaging in a form of Holocaust denial for questioning the persecution of trans people under the Nazi regime, a fact which has been well documented

I’m not denying she’s a cunt but I think it’s important to be precise with these sorts of allegations.

I don’t see anything about holocaust denial in your link. There’s a 2018 article discussing parallels between her work and the real holocaust but it doesn’t claim she’s a denier. I don’t really care for Rowling but I also don’t like misinformation. If there is some evidence can you please share it?

You have a clear bias and are working backwards from there in order to justify it.

Some do, true. I see dual nationality estimates online between 10-17% depending on the source. Call it 1 in 5. What about the other 5.6 million people that don’t have dual citizenship?

How do you think that might be implemented in reality? For example what if the USA or Poland, as in your examples, don’t agree to take people?

There are around 7 million Israeli jews. What outcome would you propose for them?

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Thanks for sharing your experiences. I think you touch on some realities that are often ignored. As far as I am concerned unions are only effective in redundancy situations in so far as they are able to keep the company honest with regards to their legal obligations.

I’d be interested to hear any first hand examples of tech workers here that have successfully gotten their union recognized.

Some of the employer tactics described here sound very familiar. One thing that isn’t really touched on are those colleagues that are vehemently anti-union. I have experienced some very vocal people and countering their misinformation is exhausting.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Interesting that you use company infrastructure for meetings. I guess it’s assumed that somebody will feed info back to the company regardless of platform anyway.

Do you know how the initial bargaining unit was formed and recognised?

What do you think would be a good way to get people to join?

I think getting people on to a neutral platform is definitely the goal. In my experience though many remote workers just do their jobs and keep to themselves so enticing them to these spaces is difficult. The ones I’ve had best luck building solidarity with are those that have attended at least one in-person event and built rapport.

What tactics do you think would work to win the others over in this environment?

I think one option is to seize on a galvanizing moment like a round of redundancies, contract change or merger and use this to get people in to a private group where they can express their opinions with less fear of reprisals.

Of course you would still have to initially communicate via some company owned channel. For this I’ve found people are more willing to talk one on one via voice/webcam than text. Make sure any transcription feature is disabled.

Obviously a big problem here is that you are already on the backfoot since you are relying on the the company’s actions to create the right conditions. You can try instead be proactive with these chats but the momentum is much weaker.