Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
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Re: Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
#2> So far, AWU has called on YouTube to permanently ban Donald Trump
So one of the top priorities of the union is to push the company to cancel more freely, to shrink the overton window, to be more politically partisan and to conceal more from their customers for their own good.
Of course they have every right to do so, but it doesn't give me confidence that this union will be a positive force.
Re: Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
#3> So far, AWU has called on YouTube to permanently ban Donald Trump So one of the top priorities of the union is to push the company to cancel more freely, to shrink the overton window, to be more politically partisan and to conceal more from their customers for their own good. Of course they have every right to do so, but it doesn't give me confidence that this union will be a positive force.
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Re: Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
#4Ahh bullshit politics and turf wars - the union way.
Re: Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
#5> So far, AWU has called on YouTube to permanently ban Donald Trump So one of the top priorities of the union is to push the company to cancel more freely, to shrink the overton window, to be more politically partisan and to conceal more from their customers for their own good. Of course they have every right to do so, but it doesn't give me confidence that this union will be a positive force.
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#6Well this is certainly some fun drama to watch.
Having Google TC and deciding to unionize and risk it all is certainly a risky choice. Google at E5/E6 is a “comfortable FIRE in 10 years” place if levels.fyi is correct.
Re: Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
#7> So far, AWU has called on YouTube to permanently ban Donald Trump So one of the top priorities of the union is to push the company to cancel more freely, to shrink the overton window, to be more politically partisan and to conceal more from their customers for their own good. Of course they have every right to do so, but it doesn't give me confidence that this union will be a positive force.
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I agree. Joe Biden should be taken off the air for allowing 4000 Americans to die from COVID every day and countless others to be blown up by the military that he commands.
Re: Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
#8This seems... exaggerated and not particularly newsworthy, like the journalist's trying to make a big story out of something tiny:
> In a statement, AWU executive council member Auni Ahsan said: “We want to honor the concerns that have been raised, but our primary focus as a union isn’t affiliation or disaffiliation.”
> After the article came out, however, multiple AWU members told The Verge they were blindsided by the news. A Google worker in Europe also said they hadn’t known about the announcement, but noted they typically don’t find out about union news before it becomes public.
> Uni told The Verge that McEnany was “very involved” in the alliance, and during the meeting, McEnany acknowledged he was partly to blame — he’d told Uni to attribute the quote to Koul.
So... just your standard communications mixups? I mean, if the journalist has to quote a Googler who didn't know about the announcement but admits they don't typically get non-public union announcements anyways... it tells me there isn't much here.
This doesn't really seem like "turmoil" to me, but more of a journalist trying to create a sensationalistic narrative.
Re: Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
#9> So far, AWU has called on YouTube to permanently ban Donald Trump So one of the top priorities of the union is to push the company to cancel more freely, to shrink the overton window, to be more politically partisan and to conceal more from their customers for their own good. Of course they have every right to do so, but it doesn't give me confidence that this union will be a positive force.
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Keep in mind the very same people supported organizations like antifa and blm who killed or got killed a lot more than 5 people over the past few years...