介绍:
“这不是我们想要工作的公司！”
长期以来，在硅谷的科技互联网行业中工会组织并不常见。近日，一部分谷歌员工正式成立了工会组织，引起广泛关注。谷歌工会的成立为什么能够这么引人注目呢？它有多大规模，又有多大影响力呢？一起来听今天的讲解。
英文原文
Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism
By Kate Conger
More than 400 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of the world’s largest companies and presenting a rare beachhead for labor organizers in staunchly anti-union Silicon Valley.
The union’s creation is highly unusual for the tech industry, which has long resisted efforts to organize its largely white-collar work force. It follows increasing demands by employees at Google for policy overhauls on pay, harassment and ethics, and is likely to escalate tensions with top leadership.
The new union, called the Alphabet Workers Union after Google’s parent company, Alphabet, was organized in secret for the better part of a year and elected its leadership last month.
But unlike a traditional union, which demands that an employer come to the bargaining table to agree on a contract, the Alphabet Workers Union is a so-called minority union that represents a fraction of the company’s more than 260,000 full-time employees and contractors. Workers said it was primarily an effort to give structure and longevity to activism at Google, rather than to negotiate for a contract.
The new union is the clearest sign of how thoroughly employee activism has swept through Silicon Valley over the past few years.
【内容拓展】
1. 同义替换
组织工会这个表达，标题用的是unionize, 第一段里用的是form a union, 第二段用的是organize its work force，其实是一回事。大家自己在写作的时候，也要向这位作者学习，在保证准确的基础上，多尝试同义替换。
2. activism
行动主义
英文释义：Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct, or intervene in social, political, economic, or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.
所谓行动主义，就是怀抱着让这个社会变得更好的理想，去推动一些变革，主要是在社会、政治、经济和环境等领域。根据一名美国知名教授Brayden King的研究，行动主义的成功，往往是借由推动无声无息的渐变，或是通过一开始是象征性的举动而后发展为深远的改革来实现的——从缓慢燃烧的小火苗变成大火焰。这次的谷歌工会，无疑就是这支小火苗，虽然小，但是象征意义重大，因此才收获了如此多的目光。
