And why one labor leader says Google organizers have 'sparked a fire that is going to spread throughout the entire tech industry.' More than a year …
The Unionization of Tech Workers
A look at the growing trend of tech workers embracing unions as they push for more meaningful say in how they're treated. Even though employees at Google, Instacart, Glitch and Kickstarter have joined these collective bargaining groups, they're still very much new to the tech industry. But that could soon change as workers at other companies contemplate unionizing.
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Just over a year ago, I spent some time in Austin meeting with Google contractors. They had been hired through Accenture to moderate some of the most …
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...
Tech and gig economy workers are talking to unions about organizing as they worry the industry isn't doing enough to protect them from the …
It’s not every day a worker in the tech sector will speak on the record, let alone two dozen of them. Companies like Google, Facebook and Apple make …
After months of upheaval, Instacart employees voted to form the Silicon Valley app's first union in the United States. A group of Instacart employees in the Chicago suburb Skokie voted to unionize with...
Echoing the concerns of worker activists in Silicon Valley, employees of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in the U.K., are joining the first union branch exclusively for tech workers in the country, which...
Updated at 2 pm E.T. Amazon workers at an Alabama warehouse are getting closer to holding a vote on whether to form the first U.S. union at one of America's largest employers — a groundbreaking possibility...
Employees of online software collaboration tool Glitch today announced their intentions to unionize. The news was made official by the Communications Workers of America Union, the largest media and communications...