View: Google’s workers unionising is the silver lining on a dark Big Tech cloud – Economic Times

Chewy Shaw, an engineer at Google, attends a video meeting with other workers in the union from his home

On the back of automation and outsourcing, a handful of tech giants and their generously paid tech workers are shaping a twotiered society, hollowing out the middle-class in the US. Pressure groups like worker unions could play an important role in setting the stage for collective bargaining.

Earlier this month, 225-odd workers got together at Alphabet parent conglomerate of Google with about 2.6 lakh full-time employees to form the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU). It tweeted that the body was in the works for over a year now and that it was open to all Alphabet company workers. Every worker deserves a union including tech workers, it said.The union is open to not just full-time Google employees, but also to other categories

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View: Google's workers unionising is the silver lining on a dark Big Tech cloud - Economic Times