Hundreds of workers at Google parent company Alphabet have formed a union, the group announced, saying it signed union cards with the Communications Workers of America and formed the Alphabet Workers Union. “On Nov. 1, 2018, at 11:10 a.m., some 20,000 Google employees, along with employees of Waymo, Verily and other Alphabet companies, stopped working and walked off the job in cities around the world,” said the union organizers in a New York Times article. It came after “the company had paid tens of millions of dollars to two executives who had been accused of sexual misconduct toward our co-workers, staying silent about the alleged abuse and letting them walk away with no consequences,” they said in an opinion article with the New York Times. The move is significant because only a small number of tech firms such as Kickstarter and Glitch have recently unionized. “For too long, big tech companies like @Google …
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