Recently, Google has found itself at odds with employees over various workplace issues. Today, in Switzerland, a group of employees met to discuss unionization efforts. The action was done in defiance of Google’s previous attempt to cancel the meeting. Google stated that they canceled the previous meeting due to the fact that the company only hosts meetings planned in conjunction with Google’s site leadership team. The actions of Google workers in Zurich highlights a trend of workers unionizing at Google, and more broadly in white-collar industries.
See "Google’s attempt to shut down a unionization meeting just riled up its employees", Shirin Ghaffary, Vox, October 21, 2019