Google contractors who rate how effective its search is will visit its headquarters this week to protest 'poverty wages'
late last year, but Google has implemented loopholes to prevent workers from receiving more, such as by capping working hours and not providing them with @google.com email accounts.
Alphabet declined to comment. RaterLabs did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. "This action from the AWU is a small but important step in holding management to account," Wendy Liu, a former Googler who has advocated for tech unionization, told Insider."Layoffs and erosions of working standards for one set of workers could very well be imposed on another set tomorrow."
Formed in January 2021, AWU represents more than 1,500 workers across Alphabet's various divisions, including those employed by the company directly and by contracting firms.with the National Labor Relations Board regarding Alphabet and contracting firm Cognizant's treatment of YouTube Music contract workers, who have been ordered to return to the office in Austin starting February 6.
The actions by the AWU come at a fraught time for Alphabet. Besieged by cooling demand for search advertisements, Alphabet announced
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