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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.
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 ...
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.
Following a majority vote to unionize under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), “World of Warcraft” gaming staff at Microsoft have received a show of support from the tech company.
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]
ZeniMax, as a subsidiary of Microsoft, is operating under a neutrality agreement negotiated between Microsoft and CWA. [54] Sega of America: Allied Employees Guild Improving SEGA April 2023 Awaiting Certification On April 24, 2023, 144 employees of Sega of America filed for a union election. [55] [56] The union election took place on June 16 ...
Carla A. Katz (born 1959) served as president of Local 1034 of the Communications Workers of America from 1999 until 2008, representing 16,000 public and private sector workers in the state of New Jersey. Katz is currently full-time faculty at Rutgers University and an attorney with the firm of Cohen, Placitella and Roth in Red Bank, New Jersey.
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.