Google has had enough with workplace activism?

[Dill]

(04-24-2024, 09:56 AM)GMDino Wrote: Eh, I suppose it depends on the company.
If I told my boss I was taking the day off to go to a protest he'd call me an idiot but let me go.
We have guys with giant Trump flags hanging from their workstations but no one has ever complained.
We did make the guy (who no longer works here) take down his self-made swastika.  Have to draw a line when visitors come in I guess.

We've been discussing something analogous on another thread.

If a company just manufactures widgets, how likely is it that employees
would protest a SCOTUS ruling on a woman's right to choose on their worksite?

Seems to me there is usually some kind of organic relation between company and protest.
E.g., What if the "company" is a news room?

Nowadays a lot of news organizations, from Fox to the NYT to NPR,
corporate to public, are dealing with employee "protests" of some sort or other.

In this case I'm curious as to why employees think that Google is participating in genocide,
if that was the basis of the protest. I'd want that answered before siding with bosses or workers.

Their mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
Is that more like widget production or more like news reporting?