[HN Gopher] Grindr Accused of Union Busting: Report
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       Grindr Accused of Union Busting: Report
        
       Author : treldorian
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2023-08-13 20:09 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | treldorian wrote:
       | At a time when unions are fighting for workers' rights across the
       | country and companies are responding by using tried-and-true
       | union-busting techniques, the LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr has
       | reportedly issued its employees an ultimatum: Move across the
       | country to work in an office or lose your job.
       | 
       | Right on the heels of the workers announcing they were unionizing
       | two weeks ago, Grindr sent out a new return-to-work policy that
       | requires workers to either move within 50 miles of the company's
       | new offices or their jobs will end on August 31, according to
       | Vice, who obtained a copy of the certification form sent to
       | workers on Monday night.
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | Where can one donate to the Grindr union?
        
       | 1attice wrote:
       | Rainbow capitalism has repeatedly failed my people -- from Dylan
       | Mulvaney through to the workers of Grindr.
       | 
       | Large tech companies (especially west-coast tech companies) have
       | taken to using LGBTQ+ people as a sort of ornament, or worse,
       | moral offset -- sure, BigCorp might be a ruthless monopolist, but
       | oh gee look how many _N_ they hired, for several different values
       | of _N_. Sure, we might be throwing whole sectors of the economy
       | into monopolized penury, but _OMG_ we have _RAINBOWS_ and we are
       | _NOT AFRAID TO FLY THEM_.
       | 
       | The backlash against queers has as much to do with the use of my
       | people as props by the ruling class as it does with the (still
       | significant) freestanding prejudice against us.
       | 
       | We will not get free until #GirlBosses are treated just the same
       | as regular bosses: socioeconomic 'guards' in a globe-wide
       | Stanford Prison Experiment.
       | 
       | Separately, but not unrelatedly, the leveraging of Buddhist and
       | other appropriated Eastern spiritual cant and tropes as tools of
       | psychological discipline (Mindfulness for layoff anxiety! Yoga
       | for shipping pressure!) is of grave concern as well.
       | 
       | The future that center-left liberals want is a nonbinary gig
       | worker meditating on a rainbow yoga mat on an AI-led mindfulness
       | retreat. As a leftist, and a Buddhist, and a queer, I say: we
       | have as much to fear from this 'near enemy' as from our far
       | enemies.
       | 
       | https://mindfulness-alliance.org/2019/02/09/near-enemies-of-...
        
         | eli_gottlieb wrote:
         | Huh, nice to see Hacker News catching up to _The Baffler_. I
         | used to work a couple floors down from them, before they moved
         | to a nicer space.
        
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