Of all the places that need a union, google is the last place I’m thinking about. We’d be much better served by organizing a retail & fast food workers union, rather than one to protect highly educated and highly paid employees.
This is not what unions are for, unions protect labour. If you want to stop google from doing business with China, then you need to work with the government.
Historically, corporate attempts at preventing unionization succeeded up to a point, and that point has long passed into the fog of history. Google will have to come up with something novel if they want to keep a union from forming.
Remember, this is a company that was central to the "techtopus" pay-fixing/raise-suppressing scandal. When the author says that Google will attempt to bring their fist down hard upon their employees, the author does not mean that Google will succeed, only that Google will try and that their attempts will be bland but bold.
