New ‘benefits’ of Facebook Workplace reportedly include a feature that helps employers prevent workers from unionizing. The social media giant seems to be joining other Big Tech companies with anti-union bias.
The Intercept reported the suggestion was made in an internal presentation and one anonymous Facebook employee saw the blacklisting “as a clear effort to give employers the ability to exert control over employees.”
Facebook Workplace is the tech giant’s answer to Slack, and allows employees to collaborate and chat with one another.
The internal presentation, now reportedly taken offline, was met with backlash online.
If you're on Facebook, you're a useful minion of an evil cyberempire.
Is this company intent on doing something evil every week? I remember when Bill Gates was viewed as calculative and ruthlessly evil. Mark seems intent on actually surpassing that.
Karandeep Anand, a product manager for Facebook Workplace, apologized for the choice of words in the presentation, stating internally that it was caused by “lack of context versus bad intent from anyone on the team.”
— JackDoesSomethingForONCE (@TwlttersGarbage) June 12, 2020
The blatant attack on employee rights and free speech comes two weeks after Mark Zuckerberg defended the platform’s hands-off approach to President Trump’s tweets. At the time, the decision was met with ire, with Facebook workers publicly denouncing the platform’s laissez-faire approach to President Trump’s Tweets.
In fact, in Silicon Valley, it seems that anti-union sentiment runs deep. According to the National Law Review, it wasn’t until February 2020 that big tech company workers actually organized a union for the first time.
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