Unless the CEO gets a mandate from the board and shareholders saying that It's OK to take financial hit because employer activism inside the firm is so important, it's all patronizing and empty talk.
There are only few ways employers can do political action inside a big company when labor laws are weak.
1. Quitting.
2. Unsanctioned agitation (getting fired if caught)
3. Sabotage (risking getting charged if caught)
This would be far from the first time it happened. Some notable examples:
- The 1984 refusal of US and Canadian dockworkers to unload South African cargo in protest of the apartheid government
- The 2019 The NYT Taxi Workers Alliance's work stoppage to protest a Muslin Ban
- The 2020 work stoppage from the ILWU in support of BLM
Union workers on the docks refused to load Pig Iron which was being sent to Japan, this was whilst Japan was committing atrocities in China.
If you want your employees to sit down shut up and work don’t pretend otherwise.
Perhaps you’ve heard of their TGIF tradition where every week management speaks openly about what’s going on and they solicit questions. That’s a culture of open communication.
Perhaps sundar wishes to change that. If so he should say so. And if he does perhaps the employees will call for a no confidence vote which would be nonbinding but what board retains a ceo who fails a no confidence vote from within?