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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), also informally referred to as the Google Union, [1] [2] [3] is an American trade union of workers employed at Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, with a membership of over 800, in a company with 130,000 employees, not including temps, contractors, and vendors in the United States.
CWA contracts also cover some non-members, known as agency fee payers, which number comparatively about 7% of the size of the union's membership. This accounts for 166,491 "non-dues-paying retirees" and 52,240 "dues-paying retirees", plus about 43,353 non-members paying agency fees, compared to 404,289 "active" members.
In 1968, Canadian NABET locals achieved local autonomy followed in 1974 by full autonomy. These locals are now part of Unifor . In 1987, NABET lost a 118-day strike against NBC , losing 200 union-member jobs, accepting a "watered-down contract", costing the union $700,000 a month in strike benefits, and costing strikers an estimated $44 million ...
The NewsGuild-CWA is composed of 46 US trade union locals and 17 Canadian locals, based largely on geography. Some locals represent the staff of a single publication, organization or company, while others represent the employees of multiple workplaces, with each considered a "unit" within the local. [1]
In July 2020 NewsGuild president Jon Schleuss sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, noting his warning "that the local news industry is facing an extinction-level event". [18] On April 13, 2021, more than 650 tech workers at The New York Times announced that they were unionizing with the NewsGuild-CWA.
The predecessor of the 1033 Program was created in 1990 under the administration of President George H. W. Bush.The program was named the "1208 Program", after section 1208 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991, [a] which outlined the program's use and authorized the transfer of military hardware from the DoD broadly to "federal and state agencies", but ...
In August 2020, CODE-CWA organized the first successful strike of 21 contract script writers in the game industry at Voltage Entertainment, which lasted for 21 days and resulted in pay increases and improved transparency. [10] Blue State Digital: Blue State Union October 2020 In Collective Bargaining
The issue of agency fee payments was a national and serious one. By 1984, about 5 percent of employees at work sites covered by a union contract had opted not to join the union and instead pay an agency fee. [48] In 1987, the same number of workers covered by CWA contracts were agency fee payers. [58]