<story><title>Employees at Google, Yahoo, and Amazon lose nothing if they unionize</title><url>https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/employees-at-google-yahoo-and-amazon-lose-nothing-if-they-unionize-heres-why/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asuffield</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m an engineer at Google. This article&amp;#x27;s description of stack ranking and perf is fundamentally and completely wrong. There is no stack ranking for perf ratings, there is no percentage of people that have to fail, and managers are not allowed or empowered to give people poor perf ratings in the way described here.&lt;p&gt;I have no comment on the stuff about unions.</text></comment>
<story><title>Employees at Google, Yahoo, and Amazon lose nothing if they unionize</title><url>https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/employees-at-google-yahoo-and-amazon-lose-nothing-if-they-unionize-heres-why/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steven777400</author><text>We have a union for IT workers (including developers) at my workplace.  I was only recently allowed to leave it as a result of becoming a supervisor.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the union was manipulative and not beneficial to employee outcomes.  They were first and foremost politicians who used union funds to support various unrelated political objectives and didn&amp;#x27;t really offer any substantive help or improvement with salary&amp;#x2F;benefits.&lt;p&gt;After I left (completely in accordance with procedure and my position), the union sent me a threatening letter demanding that I continue sending them dues.&lt;p&gt;As a very &amp;quot;left leaning&amp;quot; person politically, I&amp;#x27;m totally pro-labor, but unions often only pay lip service to the employees they are supposed to benefit.</text></comment>