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What the new Google union is fighting for (and against)

The Alphabet Workers Union is a major turning point in a long history of worker organizing and activism at one of the world’s largest tech companies. To understand this new force and what it’s fighting for, we spoke with AWU’s Executive Vice Chair Chewy Shaw and former Google employee and tech labor organizer Meredith Whittaker.…

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The Alphabet Workers Union is a major turning point in a long history of worker organizing and activism at one of the world’s largest tech companies. To understand this new force and what it’s fighting for, we spoke with AWU’s Executive Vice Chair Chewy Shaw and former Google employee and tech labor organizer Meredith Whittaker.

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  1. Coco

    March 8, 2021 at 2:55 pm

    How about these employees just leave.

  2. Wayne Montgomery

    March 8, 2021 at 3:01 pm

    Don’t be a fool if Google doesn’t do it somebody else will. Get off of your ethics high horse every country needs weapons.

  3. Junior Thanos

    March 8, 2021 at 3:16 pm

    Amazon, Microsoft, and Lockheed Martin are thanking these employees for the government contracts worth millions.

  4. Dennis Maestas

    March 8, 2021 at 3:30 pm

    I’m so glad people are finally seeing the immense pros over cons of unions. They’re unbelievably necessary

  5. oneofthemdeals

    March 8, 2021 at 3:31 pm

    The Left eat rheir own.

    • LinusMLGTips

      March 8, 2021 at 4:20 pm

      ?

  6. Thomas Webb

    March 8, 2021 at 3:40 pm

    Sell sell sell

  7. Foad S. F.

    March 8, 2021 at 3:49 pm

    I love to watch socialists destroying big tech. they opened the Pandora box and brought this upon themselves.

    • esudo

      March 8, 2021 at 5:40 pm

      How are they socialists?

  8. Tom Waznis

    March 8, 2021 at 6:06 pm

    Chewy, the cool tech engineer.

  9. CNET

    March 8, 2021 at 6:57 pm

    Correction @ 1:15 – The Alphabet Workers Union is open to workers in the US and Canada, not the whole world.

    There is an international union alliance of Alphabet workers called Alpha Global.

  10. blackstarafro2

    March 8, 2021 at 7:32 pm

    Google does even have a phone number to contact. So I can just imagine what they do to employees

  11. Ty Roberts

    March 8, 2021 at 9:37 pm

    The idea that a union can or should determine what a company should do outside of labor relations means it should face decertification. What they want is outside US laws.

  12. Larry Cato

    March 8, 2021 at 9:57 pm

    Google workers are worried about drones, but the company that they work for gathers more data on all of us more than the government.

  13. Daniel Longhorn

    March 8, 2021 at 10:26 pm

    Me: Hey Google tell me about yeast?
    G: Ok, I’m bombing the Middle East!

  14. Cliff Craig

    March 8, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    Teachers union in California has destroyed the eduction system in the state.

  15. Ou8y2k2

    March 9, 2021 at 12:31 am

    Tech unionization needs to go superglobal. Once those assholes at SpaceX, Blue Origin, or Virgin Galactic colonize Mars (by partially using pentagon dark funds), you can bet that they’ll send human slaves to continue work where robots can’t operate. I’m sure some readers are laughing at this, but remember: we still have slaves all over the world in the 21st century.

  16. Ravi Teja KNTS

    March 9, 2021 at 1:58 am

    I am a big fan of Google and their services, but Unions like these are really great, it will make the companies grow much better.

  17. Shawn

    March 9, 2021 at 4:02 am

    800 Members- hilarious!

  18. Yusuf Pasta

    March 9, 2021 at 4:31 am

    Union will destroy the lives of millions of the employees they claim to be protecting. Trust the leadership or simply leave it for another company, no one is forcing them to be there. Unions creates massive uncertainty and makes an organisation confused and lost. Clients will quickly jump ship on an organisation that lacks clear direction.

    • Arunava Ghatak

      March 9, 2021 at 9:34 am

      Exactly. I agree with you 100% .

    • Johny Marcial

      March 9, 2021 at 11:56 pm

      @Yusuf Pasta
      Are you being serious or joking?

    • Johny Marcial

      March 10, 2021 at 4:24 am

      @Arunava Ghatak
      I wasn’t talking to you. I asking a question straight towards @Yusuf Pasta.

    • Yusuf Pasta

      March 10, 2021 at 4:59 am

      @Johny Marcial I am very serious in line with @Arunava Ghatak comments. Unions only serve to empower their leaders. The rest end up as pawns of the union.

    • Johny Marcial

      March 10, 2021 at 5:18 am

      @Yusuf Pasta
      Except Google/Alphabet Company is headquartered in California, the most Union-friendly state in the country for 110 years.
      And Google has no problem with California’s reputation and continues to do business despite inevitably of unionization and collective bargaining.
      If Google had an issue with that, then they would have move out of California 15 years ago. But they didn’t.
      You forgot to factor the geopolitical circumstances, history, and state macroeconomics.

    • Yusuf Pasta

      March 10, 2021 at 5:29 am

      @Johny Marcial Time will tell now.

    • Johny Marcial

      March 10, 2021 at 5:39 am

      @Yusuf Pasta
      But are you actually going to keep track since you said “time will tell”.

  19. 1mezion

    March 9, 2021 at 8:10 am

    That’s wonderful now let’s see if Amazon worker’s can unionize

  20. Jayde Stone

    March 9, 2021 at 9:46 am

    His voice is horrible I can’t even watch.

  21. saipavankumar muppalaneni

    March 9, 2021 at 10:37 am

    I believe in Sundar Pichai more than misguided people and opinions, but the harassment issue should have been taken seriously and punished the guy.

  22. James Green

    March 9, 2021 at 1:04 pm

    Google is Evil. Money grabbing uncaring company.

  23. bbence86

    March 9, 2021 at 7:01 pm

    Did you hear the bloke? People treated equitably! Not equally. Meaning, if you whine, you get compensation, and it is not productivity what matters.

  24. boomoperator90

    March 9, 2021 at 9:42 pm

    My dumb self read this as un-ionize. I was so confused

    • Science Compliance

      March 10, 2021 at 6:38 pm

      Nerd.

  25. Willa Grolimund

    March 10, 2021 at 5:09 am

    Good!

  26. Ry Ry

    March 10, 2021 at 5:42 pm

    XX ????

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