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It’s Not Easy to Unionize at Tech Companies. But Google Employees Are Doing It. - Publication Date |
- Jan 06, 2021
- Episode Duration |
- 00:18:06
This week, 200+ employees at Google announced that they've formed a union. The Alphabet Workers Union, which is supported by Communications Workers of America (CWA), is the first of its kind at Google, and will include dues-paying members, an elected board of directors, and paid organizing staff. For now, it still represents a small fraction of the roughly 260,000 workers at Alphabet. But it's still a big deal — especially in Silicon Valley, where it's so hard to organize at all.
Guest: Sam Harnett, Silicon Valley Reporter for KQED
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