Alphabet workers form international union alliance, expanding organizing efforts
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Worker protests at Google against the company’s mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations have led to the formation of a union, a rarity among tech companies.Noah Berger / Associated Press 2018
Workers at Google parent Alphabet have announced an international union alliance after a group of employees in the U.S. and Canada formed a union this month.
The new coalition, called Alpha Global, includes unions from 10 countries, including the U.S., Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and the U.K. It is affiliated with the UNI Global Union, a federation whose members represent around 20 million people globally.
Google workers announce new global union alliance
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Tech workers check their phones as they wait for a bus to Silicon Valley. Google workers announced Monday a new global union alliance. File Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI | License Photo
Jan. 25 (UPI) Google workers announced Monday a new global union alliance to hold the company accountable.
The new alliance called Alpha Global, in recognition of Google s parent company Alphabet, was formed in coordination with Union Network International Global Union, a global union that brings together 20 million workers from various sectors in the service economy, according to a UNI Global Union post.
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Just three weeks after hundreds of Google workers united to form the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) in the United States and Canada, Google’s parent company Alphabet now has a second alliance of united workers on its hands only this one is much larger. As
The Vergereports, Google workers from 10 countries across the globe have united to form the Alpha Global coalition.
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This coalition is made up of 13 unions spread across 10 countries including the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Finland, Sweden, and Belgium.
Alpha Global shares some goals with its older brother AWU, whose aim focuses on activism getting Google to change the ways it does some business that is ethically questionable. However, Alpha Global goes a step forward. While the new global union will seek to change ethically questionable operations and projects at Google, it also aims to achieve collecting bargaining