A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize

Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by IX-103 on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:40PM (#25639835)

I would say it's more culturally motivated than political. Google has accumulated a lot of idealists that have strong opinions about the direction of the company without being promoted to a level where they can actualize these opinions by themselves. Given the support previous walk-outs have received asking employees there seems to be at least a strong passive support for these opinions.

Part of this is from how outside leadership has been brought in that is accidentally trampling over unwritten rules and part of this is conflicts in the different interpretations the increasing number of employees have of these unwritten rules.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by humanrebar on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:27PM (#25640833)

Banjo music and high school sports are cultural. Rules about empowerment are political. The word power is right in there.

I'll grant that there is support and perhaps increasing sentiment. I am not sure that there is consensus that those issues are paramount. I'm also not sure it's even enough for overwhelming majorities are sufficient to enact rules. There is such a thing as a democratic tyranny. But some sort of bill of rights might be interesting, depending.

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