Alphabet Workers Union Giving Structure to Activism at Google - AI Trends

In a highly unusual undertaking in the technology industry, the Alphabet Workers Union was formed by over 400 Google engineers and other workers in early January. The union now has about 800 members. The Alphabet Workers Union is a minority union, representing a fraction of the company's more than 260,000 full-time employees and contractors. The workers stated at the outset that it was primarily an effort to give structure to activism at Google, rather than to negotiate for a contract. The union is affiliated with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a union representing workers in telecommunications and media in the US and Canada.