Thousands of Google workers demand layoff protections amid AI boom in petition to CEO
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/16/google-workers-layoff-protections-ai
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/16/google-workers-layoff-protections-ai
11 Comments
Feyd@programming.dev · 45 pts · 63d
Anything but collecting bargaining eh
danciestlobster@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 63d
Right???? All those signatures could have been on forms to unionize
darklamer@feddit.org · 13 pts · 63d
https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/
XLE@piefed.social · 5 pts · 63d
Not only is it limited in its scope, it's also good PR for AI. (Not quite as good as "accidentally" leaked Slack messages or strongly worded letters, but close.)
Peffse@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 63d
The CEO's response:
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 33 pts · 63d
They just gave that bastard the list of who to layoff first.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 63d
This is exactly the same energy as Russian soldiers making videos to ask to Putin to save them from the meat grinder he is knowingly throwing them into.
ryan213@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 63d
[bold strategy, Cotton]
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 63d
What next? Raytheon workers demanding drone strike protections?
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 63d
Layoff protection? A guaranteee that you won’t be let go? So even if you’re terrible at your job you can’t be fired just because you don’t want to be?
There’s dumb, and then there’s this.
thejml@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 63d
Technically "layoffs" are different from "firing".
Layoffs are typically high in number, wider reaching, reductions in force just to cut numbers.
Firings are targeted and generally (though they don't have to be) with cause and have a procedure (performance reviews, improvement plans, warnings, etc.)
Not to say you can't target a layoff to include all your lower performers, more to say that you can still fire someone outside of a layoff.