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as someone pointed out in one of the other threads, they may have been acting like it was a college protest
by smegsicle 3y ago
as someone pointed out in one of the other threads, they may have been acting like it was a college protest
- paulmd 3y agoalmost as if there is an intuitive sense of fairness here, that the rules are/should-be different for institutions that are socially-significant "gatekeepers"...
- paulmd 3y agoTo clarify this a little further: I don't think you can do a sit-in and not expect retaliation. And that's how the labor-managment pushback works. It doesn't mean the labor retaliation won't be justified either - and if Taft-Hartley becomes so neutered that it's no longer sufficient to hold the center, well... But I generally do think that Google, Apple, etc employees should probably enjoy broadly similar protections to government employees in their private-time expressions. Saying "because you work for bell labs, you can't have opinions" is brutally suppressive of what amounts to today's idle intellectual class. Engineers are almost uniquely in a position to have a think about it all.