More Than Ever, Employees Want a Say in How Their Companies Are Run (qz.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:40AM from the taking-a-stand dept.

Two readers share a report: While workers have traditionally looked to unions to address their grievances, a new generation is trusting in the power of petitions to force changes. At the Wall Street Journal, 160 reporters and editors, delivered a letter to their managers protesting the lack of women and minorities running the organization, Business Insider reported yesterday. "Nearly all the people at high levels at the paper deciding what we cover and how are white men," the letter read. IBM employees are circulating an online petition objecting to the tone of CEO Ginni Rometty's letter to US president Donald Trump, and calling on her affirm what they call the company's progressive values. [...] Other employee petitions call for Oracle to oppose US president Donald Trump's second travel ban, and to let men who work at US regional supermarket Publix grow beards. Employee petitions are now so popular there's a website, coworker.org, devoted to hosting them. In some cases, the campaigns work: Starbuck's relaxed its rules about visible tattoos and unnatural hair color for baristas after thousands signed petitions asking for a change. Sometimes, they fail disastrously. Interns at one (unnamed) company described in a blog about being fired en masse after signing a petition asking for a more relaxed dress code.

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Translation by Anonymous Coward · 2017-03-29 08:43 · Score: 0, Troll

Let me translate. A bunch of whining millennial snowflakes want a say in getting out of working hard. They also think they're entitled to power even though they haven't worked hard enough to earn a management position. Millennial snowflakes are crybabies and don't deserve to be promoted.
Typical millennial thinking by Anonymous Coward · 2017-03-29 08:55 · Score: 0, Troll

The person in charge of you is your boss, and tells you what to do. There is no communication in the other direction other than "yes, sir."
Business is not a democracy.
Re:this is really getting tiring by Anonymous Coward · 2017-03-29 08:57 · Score: 0, Troll

Let me take a wild stab here. You are a straight white male, right?
Re:this is really getting tiring by Oligonicella · 2017-03-29 11:22 · Score: 1, Troll

However often people of other races have a hard time acquiring the money to make it over the barrier, it is as impossible for them as for me to become a black lesbian woman.
Bullshit. You can just declare yourself as identifying as a black lesbian. In truth, minorities have an easier time acquiring funding than white candidates do.