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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It is, actually, absolutely true that the company is using the evaporative cooling model to fight organizers - some of us said that years ago. It's not true that it's working, though.
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You see the same few names because it makes sense to specialize the roles and give the highest risk tasks to people who are comfortable with it. Please don't worry, the movement is doing fine.
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I am sure it will continue to thrive for many years to come!
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