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Google employees kick off union membership drive for 120,000 workers

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Enlarge / Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company Alphabet, May 2018. More than 225 workers at Google have formally launched a company-wide union membership drive, following an increasing drive toward organization inside the company over the past several years. All 120,000 people who work for Google parent […]

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Google workers launch unconventional union with help of Communications Workers of America

Google workers launch unconventional union with help of Communications Workers of America

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It’s the latest organizing effort by tech workers, who have gone public with frustrations over what they say are unfair labor practices and unethical business deals in recent years. Amazon workers are attempting to form a union at a warehouse in Alabama, while Google contractors in Pittsburgh have voted to form a union. (Amazon CEO

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Alphabet Workers Union launches with hundreds of members demanding change

Alphabet Workers Union launches with hundreds of members demanding change

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Contractors and employees working at Google and other Alphabet-owned companies have banded together to form the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU). More than 50 Google contract employees voted to unionize last year in Pittsburgh, but the AWU now includes more than 200 dues-paying Google employees or contractors, and organizers say it is the first union open

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Gig workers face arrest and charges while delivering during pandemic and curfews

Gig workers face arrest and charges while delivering during pandemic and curfews

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“Are you serious? Look, look, look, look! I’m not even doing anything,” he says, as an officer replies that he’s in violation of New York City’s curfew order. “It tells me on the app that … I can show you guys you can’t arrest me. Are you serious? Are you serious? For real?” This delivery

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Ex-eBay Workers Sent Critics Live Roaches and a Mask of a Bloody Pig Face, U.S. Says

Ex-eBay Workers Sent Critics Live Roaches and a Mask of a Bloody Pig Face, U.S. Says

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BOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Six eBay employees mounted a cyberstalking campaign — including sending boxes of live cockroaches and a Halloween mask of a bloody pig’s face — against a couple who ran an online e-commerce newsletter, according to charges filed by federal prosecutors on Monday. Unhappy with the newsletter’s coverage of eBay, the employees, none

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Rumors, death, and a tech overhaul: Inside Amazon’s race to hire 175,000 workers during a pandemic

Rumors, death, and a tech overhaul: Inside Amazon’s race to hire 175,000 workers during a pandemic

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It was a surge unlike any other, even for Amazon. In the first quarter of 2020, the e-commerce giant’s net sales increased by 26% over the same period a year earlier. It was panic-buying on a grand scale. Amazon.com search rankings from mid-March awarded top billing to toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and Clorox wipes, but

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