Alphabet Workers Union

For the past year, contractors associated with Google’s YouTube Music Content Operations Team have been attempting to collectively bargain with the tech giant. Those workers won the right to unionize last April in a historic victory and, since that time, have been trying to get Google to come to the bargaining table. On Friday, amidst yet another effort to spur negotiations, Google simply laid off many of the workers associated with those efforts.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery”…

Alphabet Inc. has illegally refused to negotiate with a group of YouTube Music contract workers who voted to unionize, the US labor board ruled. The decision, issued by a panel of three members of the National Labor Relations Board, tees up a federal court battle over whether the internet company is legally the boss of subcontracted staff it claims are not its employees. The YouTube workers, who voted 41-to-0 last April to join the Alphabet Workers Union, are hired via the staffing agency Cognizant Technology Solutions…

Google Vice President Majd Bakar speaks on-stage during the annual Game Developers Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California on March 19, 2019.Photo: Josh Edelson (Getty Images)Google contract workers at multiple data centers filed unfair labor practice complaints Thursday against Alphabet for alleged firings in retaliation for union activity. The allegations come within days of a separate National Labor Relations Board complaint accusing Apple of illegally intimidating and discriminating against…

Unionized Google employees across the U.S. signed a petition arguing the company needs to do more to protect workers’ abortion access.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)More than 650 members of the Alphabet Workers Union, the recently-established minority union made up mostly of Google engineering folks, demanded in a letter to company execs that their company change its broad policies in the wake of the end of Roe v. Wade.In a release sent to Gizmodo, the union made three main points. First, unionized employees said…

A strike by Google Maps employees could have resulted in service hiccups for the software’s billion monthly users. Photo: OLIVIER DOULIERY (Getty Images)Contractors at Google have successfully pushed back their return to office mandate after threatening to go on strike. Google Maps contract workers secured a 90-day extension to return to the office after the company initially slated a return to work for June 6.The Alphabet Workers Union took to Twitter to share the news. The Union stated that the contractors were…