Re:Google fired employees for union activity, says US agency
by ocdtrekkie on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:46AM
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Most Googlers aren't exactly passing around union cards, but a bunch are collaborating and organizing on pushing the company to do what they believe the company should do. It's kinda union-like, but software engineers aren't fighting for higher wages and workplace safety as much as trying to push ethical behavior.
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Re:Google fired employees for union activity, says US agency
by marricks on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:52AM
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Google has essentially a monopoly on search and is part of a duopoly on mobile phones, so they have the money to treat their employees LAVISHLY compared to others.
Perhaps Maslow's hierarchy of human needs is right, and the employees are treated well enough their able to care about other groups and the ethical implications of their work? Seems like a good thing to me.
Re:Google fired employees for union activity, says US agency
by lithos on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:55AM
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A Kickstarter style union where employees say "we aren't allowing this on the platform, and we will have this even though we normally would not allow it", would allow for an amazing level of evidence to pile up of biases. That would be a nightmare scenario for Google.
Re:Google fired employees for union activity, says US agency
by whimsicalism on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:50AM
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Google would vastly prefer the former than organizing for ending forced arbitration (which worked and is what prompted Google's anti-union crackdown/illegal firings), a formal council for engineers to voice complaints/elect representatives, and higher wages/profit sharing.