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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by croissants on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:18AM (#21638432)
Are there any numbers for how Google employees at large actually feel about the claims made by organizers (unionization, retaliation, harassment, bad work environments, etc)?

It's hard to tell from the outside how many people actually there agree with, disagree with, or are indifferent to, the efforts of the people who have been fired.

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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by elchin on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:32AM (#21638548)
There aren't. The petitions are always for a given cause, not the counter-cause.
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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by croissants on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:49AM (#21638680)
Sure. But people who think the status quo is not bad are unlikely to petition for it. So there seems to be a selection problem here.
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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by icotyl on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:07AM (#21645408)
Yeah, I think you are in agreement.

It’s worse than that though, because I’d be afraid to say anything contrary to the activist’s opinions. I don’t want to be stalked or harassed. The company is extremely tolerant of what employees say, the activists not so much.

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