Apple and Google started a wage-fixing cartel involving dozens of companies and over 1 million emplo

[unhappycamper]

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Apple and Google started a wage-fixing cartel involving dozens of companies and over 1 million employees
Corporate America | Worker's Rights
by Gaius Publius | April 18, 2014 - 9:18am

You probably haven’t read about this before — and if you believe the myths and the legends, Apple’s Steve Jobs was a kind-hearted visionary, and Google’s Eric Schmidt has your NSA-covered back.

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Back in January, I wrote about “The Techtopus” — an illegal agreement between seven tech giants, including Apple, Google, and Intel, to suppress wages for tens of thousands of tech employees. The agreement prompted a Department of Justice investigation, resulting in a settlement in which the companies agreed to curb their restricting hiring deals. The same companies were then hit with a civil suit by employees affected by the agreements.

This week, as the final summary judgement for the resulting class action suit looms, and several of the companies mentioned (Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm) scramble to settle out of court, Pando has obtained court documents (embedded below) which show shocking evidence of a much larger conspiracy, reaching far beyond Silicon Valley.

Confidential internal Google and Apple memos, buried within piles of court dockets and reviewed by PandoDaily, clearly show that what began as a secret cartel agreement between Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric Schmidt to illegally fix the labor market for hi-tech workers, expanded within a few years to include companies ranging from Dell, IBM, eBay and Microsoft, to Comcast, Clear Channel, Dreamworks, and London-based public relations behemoth WPP. All told, the combined workforces of the companies involved totals well over a million employees.

[CFLDem]

1. I hope those workers get every penny stolen from them. nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. They should be brought up on charges.....

that's just anti American

[justhanginon]

3. Yeah, that'll happen any day now!

In today's environment where the corporations own the government even a slap on the wrist is a rarity. I don't think I will hold my breath waiting for charges anytime soon. Big money has become so pervasive in congress and regulators that corporations have virtually free rein to do as they wish. It is a pretty sad state of affairs for our country. At least it used to be our country.

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. The Corporations don't just own the govt at this point....

they answer to no one anymore....

Corporations own the world.