Union Busters Coming After Me

https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/union-busters-coming-after-me

142 26 16 days ago

spelk• 16 days ago

This is honestly hilarious and I applaud the excellent use of Claude Code for the malicious compliance with their demands.

JumpCrisscross2• 16 days ago

malicious compliance

This isn't malicious compliance. It's over-the-top compliance. He has no requirement to comply with their random demands. He does anyway.

cognitiveinline• 16 days ago

I wonder how this will be received. Since AI has come up, I think pro-union sentiment has been at a an all time high. How do you feel, HN?

gunalx• 16 days ago

Amazing. Next is automating this, automatically or manually gathering all domains they have registered, and spinning up Claude to register a similar domain and creating the counter website.

elicash• 16 days ago

This is the attorney who runs https://nlrbresearch.com (which is run on Datasette) and the AI assistant (Claude Skill) that is tied to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOa3Pc8RD40

josefritzishere2• 16 days ago

This is delightful. I know he's not paid to do this but I would gladly donate to this.

JumpCrisscross2• 16 days ago

A cancer center [1] is resorting to these tactics? Based in Seattle?!

Here is their leadership team and Board: https://www.fredhutch.org/en/about/about-the-hutch/leadershi.... If you're in the area, or if you know a patient, I'd e-mail them a copy of this blog post.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hutchinson_Cancer_Center

gilfaethwy• 16 days ago

Of course they are. It's a good reminder that non-profits are very often just an arm of capital, whatever their legal status is, and that they will exercise capital's authority to try to suppress workers' rights.

mrguyorama• 16 days ago

US management culture is the same everywhere.

justin66• 16 days ago

Paying the worker bees more because they've unionized might potentially take money away from the nonprofit's important mission. Not to mention the salaries of senior staff, who are paid over a million dollars a year. [0]

[0] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/911...

IAmBroom2• 15 days ago

Some are missing your (also missing) "/s".

silexia2• 16 days ago

Unions destroy innovation and change in businesses. Look at how teachers unions fight against performance based pay and make it impossible to fire bad teachers. I love that cancer centers are resisting communism.

Moomoomoo309• 15 days ago

Innovation and change are not worth as much as providing a living wage to those who work for you. If you value nebulous innovation over the quality of life of real people, I don't know what to tell you.

a34729t• 16 days ago

Oooooh this is great.

cliglot• 16 days ago

Better get yourself a gun.

cucumber3732842• 16 days ago

He's being harassed by a law firm, not the mob. If someone shows up to do him harm they will be from the government because the law firm will have contrived government process to that end.

Shooting at them while they're on the clock is generally not wise.

20after4• 16 days ago

It's not that far fetched to assume that someone could be in physical danger after ruffling the feathers of a company that has hired a union busting firm. Union Busters have a long history of employing gun violence against striking workers.

schlauerfox• 16 days ago

They mostly switched to ruining your life but it's got a long history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_Unite... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence_in_the_Uni...

gonight• 16 days ago

This is the spirit we need more of, good to see nerds causing a ruckus.

LoganDark• 16 days ago

When I asked them whether they believe those are IP infringements, I was told that they don’t answer hypothetical questions.

Huh, I've never seen this strategy before.

Marsymars• 16 days ago

Notably, those questions aren't actually hypothetical.

lovich• 16 days ago

It’s a close relative of the “I haven’t heard of that defense” by politicians who have definitely heard about said event in question.

Union Busters Coming After Me

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