Talk:Alphabet Workers Union

COI'd edit request: reword sentence to not present an article-subject claim as a Wikipedia-voice fact
Kistaro Windrider (talk) 20:16, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Specific text to be added or removed: "The company has retaliated..." (near the end of the "Positions" section) - please rewrite to "It considers Google to have retaliated...", or "it asserts the company has retaliated..." or a similar phrasing. ("It" here is "the union", the subject of the previous sentence.)
 * Reason for the change: The current phrasing states without segue that "The company has...", which makes it an uncited statement in Wikipedia's voice. The accuracy of this statement is the heart of ongoing controversy about the events it refers to, so I regard it as inappropriate to not qualify the claim as a view from the subject of the article, rather than background information granting context to the article.
 * References supporting change: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/954710407/at-google-hundreds-of-workers-formed-a-labor-union-why-to-protect-ourselves - the existing citation on this sentence - explicitly includes a statement near the end from Google contesting the claim of retaliation. Much earlier in the article, it describes and quotes statements from AWU press releases and an AWU member, where they describe their position on retaliation. The article takes no position on whether this claim is accurate; not qualifying the statement in this article treats it as concluded when it is, instead, a live dispute.
 * My conflict: I am employed by Google as a software engineer. This edit request is wholly in my personal capacity as an individual, is not representative of or endorsed by Google or Alphabet, and is not within my scope of work. I am not receiving any payment for this edit request and I am not responding to any request that I make this request. (It's requests all the way down.) I consider my employment to render it inappropriate for me to make any direct edits about Alphabet LLC, its subsidiaries, its competitors, its antagonists, its staff, its products, etc. Obviously this specific topic is about as "do-not-touch" as it could get for a Google employee.