My Systems Administration job unionized this year. ✊
The C Suite and Board at each company care far more about their yearly bonuses and dividends than you earning a livelihood and working a safe job. Unionize. Solidarity against wealth hoarders.
This makes me wonder wtf is wrong with Google’s culture… I know wtf is wrong at Tesla - but is Google also a delusional libertarian breeding ground?
Having worked at Google there wasn’t any anti-unuon propaganda or anything: it was just genuinely the best work environment I’d ever experienced… Right up until they laid me off.
So while I was there the thought of joining a union would have been “meh - what can they realistically get me?” and after the layoff was “oh yeah right they could’ve gotten me protection”
Exactly. You don’t join it for workplace perks, you join it for protection against unfair practices.
You have your fire insurance, your car insurance,life insurance. To me, a union is a work insurance. Always have been unionised and I always will be.
To be fair to my naive past self: it was the first mass layoff at Google, ever.
Based on my friends still there: the vibes are decidedly less trusting all around.
I don’t get why anyone from any company would say no. Do libertarians even believe what they say? wouldn’t libertarians run companies be happy to take govt subsidies if it was offer to them?
It’s part of the flaw in polling. AWU is a pretty substantial minority union (meaning they don’t have bargaining rights) and they have unionized retail stores. However, Google is also a massive company
You’re conflating leadership and fans with labor.
In terms of Tesla? Not really - Elon Musk is openly anti worker so everyone hired there passes through an anti-union filter. He’s also gotten in a lot of trouble for wrongful firings in the past.
A toxic CEO makes a toxic workplace.
