SAN FRANCISCO: Employees at several of the world’s biggest technology companies have been exercising newfound political power where they work, pushing their bosses on business ethics with help from established and fledgling nonprofit groups.
Most of the highly paid professional workers at Alphabet Inc’s Google, Microsoft Corp, Amazon.com Inc and other tech companies have little experience with labour unions, and many have avoided other civil movements. But several organisations such as Tech Workers Coalition and coworker.org are helping techies learn new skills like building consensus across work groups, drafting effective petitions and protecting themselves under labour law.