> I personally think the owners should get to decide, but it's an interesting duality.

The owners of a business get to decide what to do with their business.

> (assuming it's not like everyone has a share or something, in which case they would've all had to agree I guess)

Unanimous agreement among shareholders is not necessary to sell a company.

The employees might have had some shares in the company, but not all share classes have equal voting rights. It’s also unlikely that employees in aggregate would have had enough shares to override everyone else anyway. Once shares are split among investors, founders, and employees the individual ownership of any one person or group becomes small.

I wouldn’t assume that the employees wanted to avoid acquisition. They likely benefited significantly from their shares being acquired and their new compensation packages. Imagining that the employees resisted this is projecting some other story on to them