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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by ALittleLight on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:13PM (#25637208)
Their union seems to be more social justice focused than I'd be interested in joining, e.g. "achieve just outcomes, social and economic justice are paramount".

I'd be much more interested in tackling things like non-competes, employee ownership of side projects, better vesting schedules, better direction for the company, salaries, revisiting how many H1B visas there are, etc.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by Rebelgecko on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:00PM (#25641537)
IMO Google's vesting schedule is one of (if not the) best out there. Basically the opposite of Amazon (who is something like 5-15-35-45)
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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by ALittleLight on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:11PM (#25641615)
My general point is that I'd be up for unionizing to make things better for employees. Not for social justice. Another big one would be moving to a 32 hour work week.

I want specific objectives that make life better for employees including me (although I don't work at Google, I mean hypothetically, if I did). I don't want generic platitudes.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by AshWolfy on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:09PM (#25641986)
You should read this https://organizing.work/2020/12/there-is-something-missing-f...
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