Comment by frgtpsswrdlame

Whatever you think of the opinion of some of the employees regarding FB's stance towards politics, they're just never going to get their way without a union. It's exactly right that FB is a monarchy and what we see here are akin to the political challenges you'd read about in a monarchy. The small collective actions seem to be a good step in that direction but still much, much smaller than you'd need to form a union. We've seen recent unionization efforts in professional occupations that are shrinking - media & academia mainly. But I'm not sure political mishandling or ethical concerns about data are enough to overcome the fact that tech is growing and paying good wages. People need some self-interest at stake before they make the leap to something risky like that so we'll probably keep seeing this sort of employee flailing, be it leaks or small group actions or what have you.