{"id":3727,"date":"2021-01-04T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/jedii-tech-links-jan-4\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T20:13:40","slug":"jedii-tech-links-jan-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/jedii-tech-links-jan-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Worker Organizing: the new Alphabet Workers Union"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Getting the new year off to a fast start, workers at Google today announced the Alphabet Workers Union. \u00a0From their page on Why we organized<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We recognized that our power as Alphabet workers\u2014full-time employees, temporary employees, vendors, and contractors\u2014comes from our solidarity with one another….<\/p>\n

To fight the systems of oppression that persist to this day, we stand in solidarity with workers and advocates everywhere….<\/p>\n

Alphabet\u2019s guiding principle used to be \u201cDon\u2019t be evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Help us be Alphabet\u2019s conscience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a wealth of information on the Alphabet Workers Union<\/a> site, and more on their Twitter account. \u00a0Here’s a handful of links with more perspectives on the Google Union, as well as a couple links about tech organizing in general.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re Google Workers, and We Are Forming a Union<\/a><\/h3>\n

By Parul Koul and Chewy Shaw in the New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

Our company\u2019s motto used to be \u201cDon\u2019t be evil.\u201d An organized work force will help us live up to it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Googlers Are Forming a Union <\/a><\/h3>\n

By Raksha Muthukumar in the Tech Workers Coalition Newsletter<\/p>\n

The ABC’s of Google\u2019s New Union<\/a><\/h3>\n

By Clarissa Redwine on Collective Action in Tech<\/em><\/p>\n

An explainer on non-contract unions, how workers at Alphabet are using this structure to build and maintain power, and why you should too.<\/em><\/p>\n

This morning, 250 workers at Google announced that they are forming a union.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism <\/a><\/h3>\n

By Kate Conger in the New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers. Executives have struggled to handle the change.<\/em><\/p>\n

How Google workers secretly built a union<\/a><\/h3>\n

By Anna Kramer in Protocol<\/em><\/p>\n

After a year of quiet recruiting, more than 225 Google workers signed union cards with the CWA, launching the Alphabet Workers Union.<\/p>\n

The Making of the Tech Worker Movement<\/a><\/h3>\n

By Ben Tarnoff in Logic<\/em><\/p>\n

A long look at the mechanics of a movement.<\/p>\n

There is something missing from tech worker organizing<\/a><\/h3>\n

By Carmen Molinari on Organizing Work<\/em><\/p>\n

The only way we can help our more vulnerable coworkers, or pursue broader policy changes, is by developing our own power against the company. And this is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting the new year off to a fast start, workers at Google today announced the Alphabet Workers Union. \u00a0From their page on Why we organized: We recognized that our power as Alphabet workers\u2014full-time employees, temporary employees, vendors, and contractors\u2014comes from our solidarity with one another…. To fight the systems of oppression that persist to this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}