July 6, 2026
Union busting meets clapback
Union Busters Coming After Me
Bosses tried to shut down a union parody site — the internet called it comedy gold
TLDR: A cancer center’s anti-union website inspired a homemade response site, and when lawyers tried to pressure it offline, the creator rebuilt it to comply while keeping it alive. Commenters were delighted, calling it funny, fundable, and maybe even the start of an automated anti-union rebuttal machine.
A cancer center put up a polished website urging workers not to join a union, and one lawyer-blogger decided to answer with a rival site of his own for a grand total of $11.12. Then came the part commenters lived for: the center’s lawyers reportedly fired off complaints to get the site taken down, only for the creator to respond with what the crowd is calling elite malicious compliance — using Claude to rewrite the whole thing and dodge every objection.
That’s where the community really lost it. One camp was absolutely cheering from the cheap seats, calling the move “hilarious,” “amazing,” and frankly the kind of internet gremlin energy they want more of. Another big mood was, “Don’t just stop here.” People were already fantasizing about turning this into a full anti-union-website whack-a-mole machine: find every employer site, spin up a lookalike response page, repeat. In other words, the comments weren’t just reacting — they were brainstorming the sequel.
There was also a bigger hot take bubbling underneath the jokes: some readers think public anger at anti-worker behavior is especially intense right now, and that new AI tools may be making it easier for regular people to fight back fast and cheaply. Even the nerdier side notes became part of the lore, with commenters linking the creator’s other projects like he was assembling a superhero origin story. And perhaps the most wholesome twist of all? One reader basically said, take my money. The comments didn’t just approve — they wanted to fund the chaos.
Key Points
- •The article says Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center used an anti-union website during an organizing campaign involving Advanced Practice Providers seeking to unionize with UAPD.
- •UAPD filed a representation petition on May 28, and Fred Hutch registered getthefactsfredhutch.com on June 3; by June 10 the site was active.
- •The author created a non-commercial counter-site, realfactsfredhutch.com, on June 23 to respond point by point to Fred Hutch's anti-union claims.
- •The article says similar anti-union sites for other employers shared the same WordPress-based setup, including the Bricks theme and Automatic.css and BricksExtra plugins.
- •After Ballard Spahr sent takedown complaints through Cloudflare and DigitalOcean, the author used Claude Code to rewrite the site from scratch and change its design.