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Protest against the Google work culture in November 2018: There is also harassment in tech companies
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"We had enough": Hundreds of Google employees have formed a union.
The Alphabet Workers Union, named after its parent company, works for fair wages, good working conditions and protection from exploitation and discrimination, as the newly elected chairmen Parul Koul and Chewy Shaw write in an article in the New York Times.
According to the information, 226 employees have so far joined the new agency.
In the past, several people who wanted to unionize had left Google.
The company says it supports workers' rights.
The chairmen of the Alphabet Workers Union announced the establishment of their representation with Google's handling of the misconduct of several senior employees.
The company paid millions of dollars to two executives accused of sexual assault.
So far a movement of hundreds - with more than 100,000 employees
In 2018, it became known that Google had fired many employees, including more than a dozen managers, in just two years for alleged sexual harassment.
The New York Times reported at the time that the harassment incidents had long been covered up.
Thousands of employees worldwide protested against the work culture in the tech company.
At a demo in San Francisco, Parul Koul and Chewy Shaw said a woman held up a sign that said, "I reported it and he was promoted."
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The concerns of thousands of Google employees have not been taken seriously for far too long, write the two software engineers about the formation of the union.
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Among other things, it is said that management has worked with repressive governments around the world and did not take the integration of People of Color seriously enough.
An employee who dealt critically with the use of artificial intelligence had left.
There is also discrimination and harassment in tech companies.
The parent company Alphabet take action against those who voiced their opinion.
Sensitive but important issues such as antitrust law or monopoly power should not be openly discussed.
The group has not yet responded to the allegations.
“We are the workers who built the alphabet.
We write code, clean offices, serve food, drive buses, test self-driving cars and do whatever it takes to keep this giant running, ”said the New York Times article by the two union founders .
The company management has repeatedly placed profit above the interests of the employees.
Now they are joining together, »Temporary workers, suppliers, contractors and full-time employees - to create a unified employee voice«.
How influential the Alphabet Workers Union, which only has a few hundred employees, will ever become is open.
To classify: According to the New York Times, Google had more than 100,000 employees and more than 120,000 temporary workers worldwide in 2019.
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