This CNN business article claims that "worker activism is reaching a fever pitch" but describes the opposite—how vocal organizers took a large severance payment from Google and moved on to lucrative (and presumably more fulfilling) jobs elsewhere.https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/01/tech/google-walkout-one-year-later-risk-takers/index.html …
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This is the evaporative cooling model of fighting organized labor, and I'm fascinated with how well it works in tech
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The sign I look for in these articles is new names. Google has over 100K employees, so if workplace activism is really reaching a fever pitch, you would expect to hear from more than the dozen people who are always quoted in these stories. But you don't.
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You know they were pushed out due to retaliation, now the growing number of Googlers organizing are afraid to go on record w/ their names. You're also ignoring TVCs who had a successful union vote, first "white collar" tech workers to do so. This thread seems willfully ignorant.
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You are absolutely right about me overlooking the Pittsburgh TVC union vote; thank you for the correction!
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