A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize

Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by piker on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:15AM (#25630889)

Honest question: are there good examples of unionized companies that continue to innovate post unionization? Unionization seems at the surface like the end stage of disruptor where stakeholders begin jockeying for slices of a pie that now grows linearly.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by sanxiyn on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:38AM (#25631127)

Naver (the dominant search engine in South Korea) seems innovative to me. They successfully launched e-commerce project in 2018, which became #1 in 2019 beating the incumbent (which is owned by eBay). It's as if Google launched Amazon competitor and won within a year.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by ekimekim on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:47AM (#25631232)

Remember that correlation does not imply causation - even if it's true that innovative companies tend to not have unions, it might be (for example) because younger, smaller industries tend to be innovating faster and also haven't developed to the point of unionization yet.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by piker on Monday January 04, 2021 @09:28AM (#25631728)

It was actually a question somewhat about correlation. I.e., unionization is a symptom that signals the end stage, not something that causes it.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by gnopgnip on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:05PM (#25635357)

The entire economy of Germany

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by KODeKarnage on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:01PM (#25639494)

Compare that to the economy Germany could have had.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by tsjq on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:22AM (#25630961)

Is this the beginning of the end of Google?

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by SiempreViernes on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:37AM (#25631114)

Haven't we been hearing about the beginning to the end for years now?

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by jjcon on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:50PM (#25635103)

Yeah and they’ve killed off dozens of projects, profits and revenue are down, innovation is long out the window and the quality of their products has gone to hell.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by visarga on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:36AM (#25631111)

What, they run out of money?

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by sparky_z on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:55AM (#25634009)

I don't think that's the kind of "end" they mean.

IBM and HP haven't run out of money either.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by giantg2 on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:17AM (#25630908)

I would also like to know.

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