A rise in employee activism is a growing concern for employers and a risk to traditional trade unions that have failed to look beyond conventional workplace disputes, according to a panel of labour experts at last week’s European Employment Lawyer Association (EELA) Conference in Athens.
From high-profile walkouts at Google and Netflix to union drives in Apple, Activision Blizzard, and Amazon, the US technology sector has been a fertile breeding ground for both employee activism and traditional labour organisation in recent months.