Google has had enough with workplace activism?

[Dill]

(04-29-2024, 06:21 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Are you defending the Google people that were fired? 

This is not a labor conflict. 

Yes.

But I'm also adding that often the same thing happens during labor conflicts.

Americans take the side of corporations for the same reasons: they don't want "chaos"
and businesses have to make a profit, workers have a right to work etc.

There is a rank order of priorities in this case as well that I don't agree with.
Labor shouldn't always be dissed for taking ethical stands against corporate greed.

In the late '30s, San Francisco longshoremen refused to load scrap Iron to Japan,
while the Imperial army was raping and butchering its way across China.
Then in the 60s they refused to load cargo heading to or from South Africa, and supported
divestment.

In '85 they were still doing it, and prompted Berkeley students to protest for
divestment as well. Many Americans, of course, were against that. Certainly Reagan was.

So this sort of protest isn't exactly new.