Google has fired five employees for organizing in the span of a month with no consequences. Management read the situation correctly and decided that the employees left standing wouldn't walk out or do anything except get mad on internal message boards. It's depressing as hell.
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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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