Alpha Global : Google employees form alliance to fight workplace issues
Alpha Global is affiliated with the UNI Global Union, a federation of labour unions representing 20 million people worldwide
Monday January 25, 2021 7:16 PM, IANS
San Francisco: In a bid to hold Alphabet accountable on issues like inequality, gender discrimination and workplace harassment, Google workers across the world have formed a global union alliance called Alpha Global, The Verge reported on Monday.
Alpha Global is affiliated with the UNI Global Union, a federation of labour unions representing 20 million people worldwide, including workers at ecomemrce giant Amazon. We know that organizing for justice at a global company like Alphabet does not stop at national boundaries, Parul Koul, executive chair of the Alphabet Workers Union and a Google software engineer, said in a statement.
Google Unions Form Global Alliance Representing 20 Million Employees Google Unions Form Global Alliance Representing 20 Million Employees Alpha Global will fight for the rights of full-time Alphabet employees as well as temporary, vendor and contract workers, UNI Global said. The problems at Alphabet . are not limited to any one country, the union said. (Representational)
Google employees from across the globe are forming a union alliance, weeks after workers at the search engine giant and other units of parent company Alphabet Inc formed a labor union for US and Canadian offices.
UNI Global Union, that represents about 20 million workers globally, said on Monday it helped form Alpha Global, Google s union alliance that includes multiple countries such as the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and the UK. (https://bit.ly/2Y9DTMb)
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