0369.json

{
    "id": 378,
    "date": "2021/01/04",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/technology/google-employees-union.html",
        "https://alphabetworkersunion.org/",
        "https://collectiveaction.tech/2021/the-abcs-of-googles-new-union/",
        "https://twitter.com/AlphabetWorkers/status/1346612197305114624",
        "https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/11/22224926/google-union-700-members"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "union representation"
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    "struggles": [
        "working conditions",
        "job security",
        "discrimination",
        "unfair labor practices",
        "ethics"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
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        "contract workers",
        "inhouse workers"
    ],
    "description": "Over 200 Google employees in the U.S. and Canada revealed that they had formed a solidarity union. Updated to 530 members (1/6/21). Updated to 700 members (1/12/21). Updated to 800 members (2/17/21).The Alphabet Workers Union includes contractors, who make up over half of the company's workforce, and is affiliated with the Communications Workers of America. According to the union website, the goal of the AWU is \"to create a democratic process for workers to wield decision-making power; promote social, economic, and environmental justice; and end the unfair disparities between TVCs (temporary, vendor, and contractor workers) and FTEs (full-time employees)\". The union has been over a year in the making and organizers credit the foundation laid by the last decade of collective actions at the company. ",
    "online": null,
    "locations": [
        "usa",
        "canada"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "alphabet",
        "google"
    ],
    "workers": 701,
    "tags": [
        "coworker solidarity",
        "cwa"
    ],
    "author": [
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    "addresses": [
        "Alphabet, Horace Mann, Japantown, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95112, United States",
        "Google, West Bluff Creek Drive, Playa Vista, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CAL Fire Southern Region, California, 90096, United States",
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