I support CWA/AWU where it helps workers learn about solidarity and mutual aid
I reject it where it sucks the air out of more radical movements and where it tries to convince members change within the system is possible

This model can also leave workers feeling like joining a union is something you can sign up and forget about and AWU will have to work to make Googlers understand what it means to be in a union

I can't be objective, CWA has been paying for my lawyers and I couldn't have afforded to be fired without them

Over the last year of working with them they've had a tendency to jump the gun and announce things early (they put my name in a press release without my permission) and this feels similar

The risk is a bit different for me. I don't have to fear being fired for trying to join a union, that's already happened. Also as an illegally fired Googler my dues would be zero right now. I'm worried the announcement is premature and that organizers will be hurt as a result.

I think "for the foreseeable future companies the size of countries will end up with pretty boring unions" is an argument I mostly buy but I also think organizers looking at this for a model could and should be more radical

Regardless of if I agree with the strategy, it's happening and google will respond with the standard union busters playbook. Googlers, regardless of if you join, please use your voice to counter the lies that are surely coming

AWU is a great name and I'm loving the excuse to be puppy on main. I hope I'm wrong about how radical and militant AWU can be and that we'll be howling together on a picket line soon
awoooo!!