I’ve heard this argument repeated a lot, but it doesn’t really make sense. What legal responsibilities is Google avoiding that aren’t handled by the contracting company?
> Also, the workers have the right to negotiate about more then pay and benefits, they can bargain over working conditions which Google controls.
This also doesn’t make sense. Google negotiates the contracts with the contracting agency, but it’s ultimately the contracting agency that decides whether or not to accept the contract.
The contractors can walk out if they don’t like the terms of the contract, but to be clear they’re walking out on the contracting agency, not Google.
They can demand whatever they want, but all of these claims that we need to ignore the existence of the contracting agency don’t make sense. The contracting agency isn’t an invisible, blameless middleman.