On Wednesday, a gaggle of contractors at YouTube Music voted to unionize with the Alphabet Employees Union-Communications Employees of America (AWU-CWA). Out of the 49 employees who had been eligible to vote, 41 voted in favor of the motion, with the remaining eight abstaining. As of final yr, the employees had been already paying AWU-CWA dues however had been looking for bargaining rights. In March, the group gained a landmark legal victory when the Nationwide Labor Relations Board (NLRB) dominated that Google should discount with them to ratify their union contract.
WE WON!
41 YES’s
0 No’sAfter months of union-busting by @Google & @Cognizant, our YouTube Music members have simply gained their NLRB union election in a blowout victory & are able to deliver BOTH of their employers to the negotiating desk to win their fair proportion.✨✨ pic.twitter.com/zJot09Dsx8
— Alphabet Employees Union (AWU-CWA) (@AlphabetWorkers) April 26, 2023
Whereas Google vowed to problem the ruling, the outcomes of at the moment’s vote may have vital implications for the corporate. Supplied the NLRB’s choice stands, Google might want to collectively discount with a gaggle of its US staff for the primary time within the firm’s almost 25-year historical past. That’s one thing that would immediate different teams inside the tech large to pursue unionization.
“After months of union-busting by Google and Cognizant, our YouTube Music members have simply gained their NLRB union election in a blowout victory and are able to deliver each of their employers to the desk to win their fair proportion,” the Alphabet Workers Union tweeted.
Though Wednesday’s vote was months within the making, it comes after Google laid off 12,000 employees – or about six p.c of its international workforce – in late January. This week, the corporate shared its Q1 earnings results, reporting a internet revenue of $15 billion. It additionally introduced a $70 billion stock buyback. In 2022, the yr employees at YouTube Music Content material Operations filed for union recognition with the NLRB, Google compensated CEO Sundar Pichai to the tune of $226 million.
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