There was this huge hullabaloo about Google employees forming a union, but I’m assuming that went nowhere considering how ruthless the company was with it’s layoffs. Anyone got the full scoop?
There was this huge hullabaloo about Google employees forming a union, but I’m assuming that went nowhere considering how ruthless the company was with it’s layoffs. Anyone got the full scoop?
They currently have 1400 members, out of Alphabet’s total 130,000. You can find out more about them at their website: https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/.
They are, for the most part, not legally recognized and don’t (can’t) engage in collective bargaining.
Personally I think it went public too early, even with the year of secret organizing. They went public with only 400 people, and undoubtedly much fewer were actually active in organizing. Once the bosses get a sniff of anything going to the media, they can be pretty effective at slowing a unions growth. With such a small percentage of the company, they can’t do much. The current growth is also pretty slow, growing by only about 2-300 people in more than a year.
Oh, and there are also a few unions representing Alphabet workers outside the US. Pretty sure all the South Korean workers are unionized, a few hundred of the 5,000 British Alphabet workers are unionized, and some stuff happened in Europe that I’m not entirely clear on.
Can’t say I’m surprised. Just a horde of cut-throat individualists in tech, it’s a miracle they even reached 1400 members.