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> as there are thousands of tech companies hiring engineers in the valley -- engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better".

And we have court cases documenting that Google, Apple, etc. will do their worst to collectively reduce job mobility and artificially reduce wages. You can't use a better paying position at Apple to bargain for better wages at Google because they (and dozens others) agreed not to hire each others workers.



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