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If only there were some sort of way for the employees to withhold their labour to force management to heel. too bad there is no precedent for such thing throughout human history.

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the problem with this assertion is that for this to work....there would need to be something to "withhold"

twitter seems to have shown -so far- that the emperor has no clothes...

Are you talking about a strike? Has it happened in Google before?

There have been a few walk-outs but they weren't really much to write home about. Any attempts at unionization in Google (not that there have been many serious ones) seem to have been sabotaged, either internally or externally. I would be very surprised (albeit pleasantly surprised) if we ever saw any serious labor actions there.

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