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A group of Google engineers announced Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, they have formed a union
US WORKERS at tech giant Google are forming a trade union, they announced today.
The Alphabet Workers Union, named after the parent company of Google established during the firm’s restructuring in 2015, has been set up with assistance from the Communication Workers of America’s Campaign to Organise Digital Employees (Code-CWA).
Google software engineer Dylan Baker said: “This is historic — the first union at a major tech company by and for all tech workers.
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