"Since Google is hiring over 6,000 people this year, those picketing there say they want to make sure that their respective groups have a fair shot at being hir

"Since Google is hiring over 6,000 people this year, those picketing there say they want to make sure that their respective groups have a fair shot at being hired." No, what they are really trying to do is to come up with hiring quotas for their respective groups. Look, Google, Apple & others are already very hard pressed to get enough candidates to interview and hire. I don't think they are in any position to say "Hmm, this guy's a Latino/a, let's pass". The fact that they have no idea what they are talking about is evident from one of the signs that one of the protesters in the photo is holding up saying "Break Up the 'Whites Only' Club at Google". Jeez, have you ever been in the Googleplex? It cannot be called the `Whites Only Club` by any stretch of the imagination (unless you redefine "white" to include Indians and Asians). The first fact you notice is how many women there are (I heard estimates of >40% in general >10% in engineering, and that's unheard of in a technical company). Similar arguments apply to Apple (although, admittedly, people are better dressed there, Job's influence?)