Game Workers Unite will unionise as Game Workers Australia, sitting within the Professionals Australia union, the Sydney Morning Herald has recently reported.
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Union push to organise Google workers
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Professionals Australia will lead a push this year to organise technology workers over unpaid overtime and harassment issues, with big tech firm Google a major target.
The union is looking to expand its core membership base of engineers to the white-collar workforce in the face of huge growth predicted in the technology sector and increased demand for workers due to COVID-19 restrictions on migration.
Jill McCabe, CEO of Professionals Australia, in front of Google’s new headquarters in Melbourne.
Eamon Gallagher
The push follows more than 400 Google workers forming a union at the company’s US headquarters this month in what some observers have billed a global light on the hill in an industry known for its anti-union stance.