There are no unions in Silicon Valley but maybe they aren't needed if software engineers can self-organize at a moment's notice -- using the same communications and collaborations tools they use at work and at leisure.
Will Silicon Valley's largest companies now have to clear all business deals with a worker's council of some sort? Will senior management need approval for their business strategies from their staff?
Will the US military or government agencies trust Silicon Valley engineers to not sabotage or delay what they might consider to be immoral projects?
Or will Silicon Valley companies use their own technologies to quickly sandbox and isolate internal protests before they spread?
Military AI
Google's management certainly tried hard to stop the internal protest to its Project Maven -- a contract with the US military to use machine learning to improve target image recognition by drones.
Ben Tarnoff has written a fascinating account in Jacobim magazine on how the protest was organized : Tech Workers Versus the Pentagon:Workers at Google just scored an impressive victory against US militarism.[1]
A Google employee called "Kim" told Tarnoff that the initial September 2017 protests to Project Maven were small but really took off in early 2018 leading to Google senior management holding all-hands meetings to protect Project Maven.
Diane Greene, head of the Google Cloud business group, came across as ill-prepared for the questions she was asked.
An employee said, "Hey, I left the Defense Department so I wouldn't have to work on this kind of stuff. What kind of voice do we have besides this Q&A to explain why this project is not okay?"
Co-founder Sergey Brin told the employee, "Letting you ask that question is the voice that you have. Very