If they'd tried this with electricians, the whole west coast would be without power right now. But tech workers are different.
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Here's the story firsthand from the latest person fired, Kathryn Spiers: https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for-exercising-her-rights-and-protecting-coworkers-from-illegal-b86c41ef91b9 …
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Nothing kills organizing efforts more surely than the knowledge that if people are fired for it, their co-workers won't go to the mat for them. Management clearly knows this, but do Googlers understand it? They need to act now or accept that they're working for high wage WalMart
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Meanwhile in Hong Kong, where doing so risks anything from their livelihood to a 5-10 year jail term, office workers protest on their lunch break. https://twitter.com/hyjpang/status/1206925485772550149 …
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hey kids get a stem job where labor organization is unnecessary enjoy the free table tennis
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rent is too high
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Love the orange site discourse on the latest one.
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I hope we/they can prove you wrong here. Workers there are trying to doing things in a way which results in short-term fewer firings but long-term more impact, but these things take time.
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I hope to be proven wrong, too. But a lot of time has already passed, and this case in particular (five people fired for organizing) requires an immediate visible response that has not been forthcoming.
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I would simply immediately organize a 100,000 person company
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