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Yes they should stick to actual "Trade union union issues" to start with - and remember that large number of Google employees would be ok working on defence an

Yes they should stick to actual "Trade union union issues" to start with - and remember that large number of Google employees would be ok working on defence and probably voted republican. Selling tech to oppressive nation states who are not the USA's friends is a separate issue

capableweb 6y ago
> large number of Google employees would be ok working on defence > probably voted republican I'm not saying you're wrong, but do you have any surveys or data points to support those two points? Seems you and a few others here on HN would do good by reading up on trade unions look around the world. As far as I'm reading their values, all of them are within "Trade union issues" and doesn't consider having a country-wide political impact. The people working on this are trying to adjust their own workplace.
- dnissley 6y ago
  Santa Clara County (where Google's headquarters are) election results: Biden: 72.64% (617k votes) Trump: 25.23% (214k votes) Source: https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/106043/web.264614/#/summary https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/1060... Caveats galore of course: Not every Santa Clara resident works at Google, not every worker at that office lives in Santa Clara county, Google has many other offices in other areas, voting for Trump doesn't mean someone is republican, etc. etc. But, it would be pretty surprising to me if there wasn't a sizable minority -- say at least 10% -- of workers at Google that voted republican/trump. Here's another data point, re: donations to political parties by Google employees, with probably an even longer list of caveats than the above analysis: Democrats: $5,437,048 (88%) Republicans: $766,920 (12%) Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-companies-ranked-by-employee-donations.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-companies-...
- Mauricebranagh 6y ago
  Experience as an activist in Prospect/BECTU in the UK (this is the union for technical professions and film and telly)

capableweb 6y ago

> large number of Google employees would be ok working on defence > probably voted republican I'm not saying you're wrong, but do you have any surveys or data points to support those two points? Seems you and a few others here on HN would do good by reading up on trade unions look around the world. As far as I'm reading their values, all of them are within "Trade union issues" and doesn't consider having a country-wide political impact. The people working on this are trying to adjust their own workplace.

dnissley 6y ago
Santa Clara County (where Google's headquarters are) election results: Biden: 72.64% (617k votes) Trump: 25.23% (214k votes) Source: https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/106043/web.264614/#/summary https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/1060... Caveats galore of course: Not every Santa Clara resident works at Google, not every worker at that office lives in Santa Clara county, Google has many other offices in other areas, voting for Trump doesn't mean someone is republican, etc. etc. But, it would be pretty surprising to me if there wasn't a sizable minority -- say at least 10% -- of workers at Google that voted republican/trump. Here's another data point, re: donations to political parties by Google employees, with probably an even longer list of caveats than the above analysis: Democrats: $5,437,048 (88%) Republicans: $766,920 (12%) Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-companies-ranked-by-employee-donations.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-companies-...
Mauricebranagh 6y ago
Experience as an activist in Prospect/BECTU in the UK (this is the union for technical professions and film and telly)