And the employees wouldn’t even have jobs to complain about if the company had not made the investments to grow large enough to hire them. So that’s kind of one-sided.

Just because the union made them do it, doesn’t mean it was a bluff or the right decision. And if those investments pan out, the stock gains are often worth substantially more to the employee than the token merit increase.

You make it sound like the management couldn't have communicated this to employees and that they wouldn't vote for what is beneficial; like, perhaps you think they're too naive to understand longer term interests, or whatever.

Sure, management have to turn realise they can no longer dictate what is solely in their interests, but in most companies they're probably up to the task.

Plenty of workers have forgone monies owed in order to keep their employees companies afloat. If both parties respect one another a lot can be achieved.

These people don’t respect Google though. They’re indoctrinated activists who fight invisible enemies, merely for the sake of feeling like righteous heroes. The union chair appears to have worked at Google for less than a year, having just moved to the US for college and freshly graduated. It’s a little entitled and ridiculous.