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Google lays off contractors who unionized last month | Engadget

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Google lays off contractors who unionized last month | Engadget

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Around 80 Google Help subcontractors who recently voted to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America (AWU-CWA) found out last week that they will be laid off.

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I guess they didn’t get enough employees/contractors on-board with the unionization.
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  Right. The lesson Google is teaching is that everyone should unionize, not just some of us.

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