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groundloop

(11,488 posts)
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 04:40 PM Jan 2021

Google employees form labor union in United States

Source: Reuters

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - More than 200 employees and contractors at Google parent Alphabet Inc in the United States and Canada have formed a labor union to promote workplace equity and ethical business practices, the group’s elected leaders said on Monday.

The “Alphabet Workers Union” will collect dues of 1% of total compensation from members, according to its website. The funds will cover paid organizers, events, legal support and wages for members in the event of a labor strike.

The group’s formation builds on unprecedented protests by Google workers in recent years. While the tech industry has seen minimal union activity and worker pushback historically, thousands of people at Alphabet had banded together to publicly criticize Google’s handling of sexual harassment complaints, its work with the U.S. military and other issues.

“Our union will work to ensure that workers know what they’re working on, and can do their work at a fair wage, without fear of abuse, retaliation or discrimination,” Google engineers Parul Koul and Chewy Shaw wrote in a New York Times opinion piece on Monday announcing the union.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-union/google-employees-form-workers-union-in-united-states-idUSKBN29918A

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Google employees form labor union in United States (Original Post) groundloop Jan 2021 OP
Excellent! cp Jan 2021 #1
Good news! BigmanPigman Jan 2021 #2
Hooray! Hekate Jan 2021 #3
We need unions Claire Oh Nette Jan 2021 #4
Exactly! OrwellwasRight Jan 2021 #6
Great! Union strong 💪 nt yaesu Jan 2021 #5
Stop watching us Google twodogsbarking Jan 2021 #7

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
4. We need unions
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 06:35 PM
Jan 2021

Says a former California teacher who took a fat pay cut to move to North Carolina where there are no unions. CA offered better salaries, and much, much better benefits.

Reagan engineered the attack on unions--the air traffic controllers, then the trades with his first amnesty, coupled with the rise of self managed 401(k)s in place of, not in addition to, pensions. Aerospace workers have unions. Teachers and Nurses. Fire and pplice and federal civil servants. Plumbers and pipe fitters. Postal Workers.

All good paying jobs.

Biden's administration needs to be union friendly. Unions afforded my generation (Gen X baby) a pretty good lifestyle because our parents were more likely unionized. As the unions have declined, so has the buying power of the dollar as productivity gains all go to the top, not the workers.

twodogsbarking

(9,308 posts)
7. Stop watching us Google
Tue Jan 5, 2021, 08:12 AM
Jan 2021

or pay us for our information. Perhaps a user union is in order. Google can pay everyone to use their products.

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