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> This seems like a pretty bold and employee-friendly move. Google recently merged two large divisions, so there's going to be some redundancy. Most companies w
by randmeerkat 2y ago
> This seems like a pretty bold and employee-friendly move. Google recently merged two large divisions, so there's going to be some redundancy. Most companies would resolve this with a layoff, but it sounds like they're trying a buyout at the request of their employees.
Or they’re afraid the union at Google will gain more traction. The employees should unionize now before the layoffs happen.
- SR2Z 2y agoThe Google union, AWU, is a complete clownshow and more focused on TVCs than engineers. They suggest engineers pay insanely high dues so that they can spend it on other people. It's a bunch of new college graduates LARPing as the leaders of a real labor movement and could not become a federally recognized union even if it tried. If I hadn't met some of the people in charge and seen how serious they were about it, I'd think that the whole thing was a plant designed to stop an actual engineers' union from forming.
- learningstud 2y agoTrue, unions, in general, hurt employees no matter how competent or incompetent said unions are. Unions are the privatization of governmental bureaucracy: more evil than "exploitative" big tech corps.