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Google lays off entire YouTube Music team when they try to unionize (twitter.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I read some more context about this. This specific team are not google/youtube employees. They are Cognizant contractors working on YouTube Music. Apparently, their contract was set to expire on that exact day that they were petitioning the city council for google to recognize their union. So there are 2 things here:

They are attempting to form a union and get recognized by google, but as employees of a different company working as contractors.
By coincidence, their contract was set to end on that day, which is kinda weird that they weren't aware.

I'm not defending google/youtube here, just sharing information I got that provides more context. Take that info as you will.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

This is huge context. Had they been Google employees it would have been a clear case of retaliation. But in this case they’re not Google employees, and their own employer was locked in a fixed term vendor contract. I don’t believe Google has done anything wrong under these circumstances.