Kind of by definition, if your efforts are effective, the company is going to become your adversary. That is in fact the first sign that you are making any kind of progress! But Googlers in particular become indignant at any kind of pushback, which they treat as a betrayal.
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I remember bringing a union organizer to meet with Googlers quietly in 2017. Employees invited us to a meeting room on campus and we had to really push to get them to change venues to... a Starbucks right next to campus. Complete culture shock for the poor union person.
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This isn't just within the company. Really prominent critics of Google's various monopoly powers use Gmail. Journalists doing investigative reporting on Google use Google Docs. It's like people aren't taking their own efforts seriously.
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Things I have had difficulty communicating in the past: if your employer tries to use dirty tricks against your union organizing, it means you're making progress! If a police informer shows up at your political rally, it means you are winning, not that all is lost! Have a donut!
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The pattern of labor organizing at Google has been to organize some event, win an immediate minor concession, disappear into internal discussions, and then have the organizers quit for greener pastures. Extremely frustrating given the leverage Google employees have.
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The most effective anti-union tool at Google by far is the internal meme board, which serves as a /dev/null for organized dissent. It is deeply beloved and extremely effective at preventing anyone from doing anything meaningful.pic.twitter.com/7LZbnPGoRR
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Anyway, as Googlers have correctly pointed out, it's easy for me to say all this from my perch outside the company. Armchair organizing on Twitter is easy. I've never had to face what it's like for someone to go sit at a desk, roll up their sleeves, and really make some memes.
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Google doesn’t need Google employees to use a Chrome extension in order for Google to know what’s on their Google Calendar
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Are you sure? Google employees write the code for Calendar, and Google wants to monitor their employees here. An extension can be managed by a smaller team.
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they should be using their private email, calendars, and groups for this… all hosted by Google
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