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Nine Google employees arrested after eight-hour sit-in protest (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by dhcmrlchtdj__ to c/news

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Kind of hilarious how there must be tons of google employees who aren’t in support of unionizing that think this kind of thing is actually going to do shit without a union.

Google employees need to unionize before they will have ANY impact on the direction of their company, period, end of story. I absolutely wouldn’t be surprised if the AWU was involved in this, there are really cool people at Google but it is astounding that the AWU hasn’t reached a critical mass at the company so far given the incredible amount of enshittification going on at the company.

Not faulting AWU people for this, more like pointing the finger at the other employees who think resistance is an individual negotiation with your employer not a collective expression of solidarity.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Fuck Google.

Hope these employees find better jobs at smaller companies that aren't helping fuck the world up.

[–] tomatol 14 points 5 months ago

Fuck Google And huge respect for these people that are willing to give up their high paying jobs for this. Hope this starts something