> The threat is supposed to be that all the engineers will step away from their keyboards The problem with threats is the company might call your bluff. You h

> The threat is supposed to be that all the engineers will step away from their keyboards The problem with threats is the company might call your bluff. You have to be prepared to actually walk away to have real leverage and Google pays well enough that most engineers would probably take reduced pay over walking away. The reason strike tactics worked historically is that the work conditions were actually *that* bad and there was also the component of striking workers threatening scabs.