"On Monday, workers announced the establishment of the Alphabet Workers Union" .. So now, as well as your manager telling you what to do, you'll have your Union Organizer telling you what to do. Neo-Sovietism with a coating of Wokism is coming to America.
Why is everyone writing as if John L. Lewis were about to bring American industry to a halt? I've heard numbers for the Google union members around 300, which might amount to a decent bargaining unit for the faculty of a community college, for Alphabet not so much. Sometimes the proverbial "cloud no larger than a man's hand" signals a change of the climate; more often it breaks up and disappears.
It would have been appreciated if the Google Union had bothered to include any links or additional information to inform the reader about references to: suicides, mass murders, a fascist movement in the US etc.
Great, as though it wasn't enough to have the Google HR and PR departments enforcing totalitarian liberalism on the masses, now we have the new voice of the Alphabet Worker's Union with outsized amplification drawing the company even more leftward.<p>Imagine going back to the heyday of unions - not unions for people making 1%'r salaries in an incredible position of gilded privilege like these Googlers are, but unions for actual working people fighting for basic work-life balance - and telling them that in a hundred years, workers making top-tier salaries will be pushing to restrict freedom of speech because it makes them mildly uncomfortable.<p>I cannot imagine being such a weak-minded individual as to be bothered when someone I do not like or agree with is posting videos and comments. What small-souled people these must be, to not be able to simply close the browser window and go and spend some time with their family, perhaps doing something real in the world, instead of obsessing about trying to shut down something half the nation wants.