Comments on: Google Goes into the Bus Business

By: Tano

Tano — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:06:41 +0000

Yes James, I agree. Thats why unions are necessary for the folks at WalMart.

If you have valuable and unique, or rare skills, then sure, you can negotiate a decent lifestyle for yourself. But all industrial economies are hugely dependent on easily replaceable workers, and the logic of the market is that they will be reduced to bare subsistence without some mechanism for collective bargaining.

By: weasle your way out

weasle your way out — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:27:01 +0000

there is no more needs for a union

By: Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:35:42 +0000

Hey! Wal-Mart greeters need lovin', too!

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:43:23 +0000

Tano: Sure, there were and probably are plenty of companies that aren't particularly enlightened. OTOH, Google presumably realizes that the type of employee they need is not so interchangeable as, say, those of Wal-Mart.

By: Tano

Tano — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:14:48 +0000

Wouldnt the more appropriate comment have been:

"if only all those other greedy corporations had done things like this, we never would have had a need for unions".

By: Little Miss Attila

Little Miss Attila — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:43:59 +0000

Google: Only Evil If You Don't Work There....

They've found the ultimate way to spoil their employees, with a company bus system: The company now ferries about 1,200 employees to and from Google daily—nearly one-fourth of its local work force—aboard 32 shuttle buses equipped with comf...