On Monday, November 25, Google confirmed that it had fired four workers for what it said were “clear and repeated violations of our data security policies.” In reality, the workers were attempting to organize a union. The company has also hired a union-busting firm, proving yet again that big tech corporations, though loath to admit it, are just like the others at heart.

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had something to say about it. “Google is too big, too powerful, and its anti-worker actions will end when we are in the White House,” he tweeted. “We are going to break up Google and stand up for workers against powerful tech monopolies.”

Ramesh Srinivasan is a Bernie Sanders campaign surrogate and author of Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow. The book’s anodyne title belies its fierce politics: like Sanders, Srinivasan believes that massive tech companies have grown unaccountably powerful and must be confronted, not courted and appeased as the Democratic Party establishment has done for decades.