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This is honestly hilarious and I applaud the excellent use of Claude Code for the malicious compliance with their demands.
> malicious compliance

This isn't malicious compliance. It's over-the-top compliance. He has no requirement to comply with their random demands. He does anyway.

I wonder how this will be received. Since AI has come up, I think pro-union sentiment has been at a an all time high. How do you feel, HN?
Amazing. Next is automating this, automatically or manually gathering all domains they have registered, and spinning up Claude to register a similar domain and creating the counter website.
A cancer center [1] is resorting to these tactics? Based in Seattle?!

Here is their leadership team and Board: https://www.fredhutch.org/en/about/about-the-hutch/leadershi.... If you're in the area, or if you know a patient, I'd e-mail them a copy of this blog post.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hutchinson_Cancer_Center

Of course they are. It's a good reminder that non-profits are very often just an arm of capital, whatever their legal status is, and that they will exercise capital's authority to try to suppress workers' rights.
US management culture is the same everywhere.
Unions destroy innovation and change in businesses. Look at how teachers unions fight against performance based pay and make it impossible to fire bad teachers. I love that cancer centers are resisting communism.
Innovation and change are not worth as much as providing a living wage to those who work for you. If you value nebulous innovation over the quality of life of real people, I don't know what to tell you.
Yes, I value curing cancer as being more important than letting slackers collect paychecks and not get fired. Sorry.
Better get yourself a gun.
This is the spirit we need more of, good to see nerds causing a ruckus.
> When I asked them whether they believe those are IP infringements, I was told that they don’t answer hypothetical questions.

Huh, I've never seen this strategy before.

Notably, those questions aren't actually hypothetical.
It’s a close relative of the “I haven’t heard of that defense” by politicians who have definitely heard about said event in question.