Google Techs form a Union

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A group of Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, creating a rare foothold for the labor movement in the tech industry.

About 225 employees at Google and its parent company Alphabet are the first dues-paying members of the Alphabet Workers Union. They represent a fraction of Alphabet's workforce, far short of the threshold needed to get formal recognition as a collective bargaining group in the U.S.

But the new union, which will be affiliated with the larger Communication Workers of America, says it will serve as a “structure that ensures Google workers can actively push for real changes at the company." Its members say they want more of a voice not just on wages, benefits and protections against discrimination and harassment but also broader ethical questions about how Google pursues its business ventures.

Google workers form new labor union, a tech industry rarity

Perhaps an ethics committee.
 
A group of Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, creating a rare foothold for the labor movement in the tech industry.

About 225 employees at Google and its parent company Alphabet are the first dues-paying members of the Alphabet Workers Union. They represent a fraction of Alphabet's workforce, far short of the threshold needed to get formal recognition as a collective bargaining group in the U.S.

But the new union, which will be affiliated with the larger Communication Workers of America, says it will serve as a “structure that ensures Google workers can actively push for real changes at the company." Its members say they want more of a voice not just on wages, benefits and protections against discrimination and harassment but also broader ethical questions about how Google pursues its business ventures.

Google workers form new labor union, a tech industry rarity

Perhaps an ethics committee.
And what do these union members stand for or want ??
 
Sort of surprising that supposedly intelligent, well educated and well compensated Nerds would want to fork over a taste to the local goombas and wise guy business agents at the local Italian Club.

I wonder what they expect- it would be interesting to talk to these rank and file guys. Do you think they really wanted to do this, or do you think the union bosses were able to muscle their way in?
 
A group of Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, creating a rare foothold for the labor movement in the tech industry.

About 225 employees at Google and its parent company Alphabet are the first dues-paying members of the Alphabet Workers Union. They represent a fraction of Alphabet's workforce, far short of the threshold needed to get formal recognition as a collective bargaining group in the U.S.

But the new union, which will be affiliated with the larger Communication Workers of America, says it will serve as a “structure that ensures Google workers can actively push for real changes at the company." Its members say they want more of a voice not just on wages, benefits and protections against discrimination and harassment but also broader ethical questions about how Google pursues its business ventures.

Google workers form new labor union, a tech industry rarity

Perhaps an ethics committee.
And what do these union members stand for or want ??

It was something about wanting to have a say in the things google censors or manipulates with.
 
Sort of surprising that supposedly intelligent, well educated and well compensated Nerds would want to fork over a taste to the local goombas and wise guy business agents at the local Italian Club.

I wonder what they expect- it would be interesting to talk to these rank and file guys. Do you think they really wanted to do this, or do you think the union bosses were able to muscle their way in?

I think they really wanted to, they don't want to be controlled by google completely.
 
Perhaps an ethics committee.
Tech-savvy Vice Lords work at Google, and they have ethics, now? What are you smoking?

when did I say they did?
local goombas and wise guy business agents at the local Italian Club
AVLN or just plain Mafia? What's going on here? Or is it Russian intelligence with Sergey Brin? Or now that H-1B non-immigrant foreign national work visa Mafia with Sundar Pichai in cahoots with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.
 
A group of Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, creating a rare foothold for the labor movement in the tech industry.

About 225 employees at Google and its parent company Alphabet are the first dues-paying members of the Alphabet Workers Union. They represent a fraction of Alphabet's workforce, far short of the threshold needed to get formal recognition as a collective bargaining group in the U.S.

But the new union, which will be affiliated with the larger Communication Workers of America, says it will serve as a “structure that ensures Google workers can actively push for real changes at the company." Its members say they want more of a voice not just on wages, benefits and protections against discrimination and harassment but also broader ethical questions about how Google pursues its business ventures.

Google workers form new labor union, a tech industry rarity

Perhaps an ethics committee.
And what do these union members stand for or want ??

A union stands for not to be slaves.
 
A group of Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, creating a rare foothold for the labor movement in the tech industry.

About 225 employees at Google and its parent company Alphabet are the first dues-paying members of the Alphabet Workers Union. They represent a fraction of Alphabet's workforce, far short of the threshold needed to get formal recognition as a collective bargaining group in the U.S.

But the new union, which will be affiliated with the larger Communication Workers of America, says it will serve as a “structure that ensures Google workers can actively push for real changes at the company." Its members say they want more of a voice not just on wages, benefits and protections against discrimination and harassment but also broader ethical questions about how Google pursues its business ventures.

Google workers form new labor union, a tech industry rarity

Perhaps an ethics committee.
And what do these union members stand for or want ??

A union stands for not to be slaves.


And they do that by shaking down their members for a taste from their pay envelope, letting the union bosses wet their beaks.
 
A group of Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, creating a rare foothold for the labor movement in the tech industry.

About 225 employees at Google and its parent company Alphabet are the first dues-paying members of the Alphabet Workers Union. They represent a fraction of Alphabet's workforce, far short of the threshold needed to get formal recognition as a collective bargaining group in the U.S.

But the new union, which will be affiliated with the larger Communication Workers of America, says it will serve as a “structure that ensures Google workers can actively push for real changes at the company." Its members say they want more of a voice not just on wages, benefits and protections against discrimination and harassment but also broader ethical questions about how Google pursues its business ventures.

Google workers form new labor union, a tech industry rarity

Perhaps an ethics committee.
And what do these union members stand for or want ??

A union stands for not to be slaves.


And they do that by shaking down their members for a taste from their pay envelope, letting the union bosses wet their beaks.

It is in general not wrong that organisation exists. Every organisation has hierarchies or "bosses". It is in general in big companies much more effective to make agreements between groups of people, instead to have to make agreements between single persons. And the economy of and for the superrich is a very special problem, which has often not a lot to do with the economy of and for normal people.
 
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