> What I don’t want is anyone making it a point to bring their personal politics to work. We have other forums for that. And few forums affect us for 40 hours

> What I don’t want is anyone making it a point to bring their personal politics to work. We have other forums for that. And few forums affect us for 40 hours / week of working plus whatever impact they have outside of the workday. And few forums provide the opportunity that our employers do. Getting Google to care about climate change has far more of an impact than holding a sign up in the street does. > If I don’t like their politics I can vote at the ballot box, donate to causes, volunteer etc. Good luck - your employer can spend billions per year and make your efforts inconsequential. > Unionization is political but it’s on a different plane. It’s worker vs employer rather than potentially worker vs worker. I'm glad you've come around! But this is also potentially worker vs worker, as there are plenty of workers who are happy to not negotiate on a level playing field, and who are happy not to have things like healthcare or higher wages for all (there's a weird strain of authoritarian subservience in American workers). > Do we really want to approach a time when one group of workers takes one side, another takes another side and they protest against each other and cause disruption to the vast majority who have no interest in getting personally involved? This has already been happening with union protests for hundreds of years. Workers don't always agree and aren't always compelled to join a union. Corporations hired groups like the Pinkertons to attack unions and kill some disruptive workers (and your employer has recently hired a firm know for squashing unionization efforts...). Nondisruptive protests do much less to effect change than disruptive ones. Rosa Parks was disruptive when she sat in the front of the bus, early unionizers were disruptive when they shut down factories and rail, unions and activists were disruptive when they marched for civil rights, or against murders and abuses by police and government. The US was founded on such principles - tossing tea into Boston harbor was a political, disruptive act, and I bet the workers on the ship were pissed about it the next day. None of these past actions were undertaken by a majority. A minority of people supported the patriots in the Revolutionary war and fewer still participated.