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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.
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.
The Campaign to Organize Digital Employees or CODE-CWA is a project launched by the Communications Workers of America to unionize tech and video game workers in January 2020. [1]
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 ...
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.
This monument is located in White Oak Park. The park, built around a quarry, has 100 trees that were donated by labor unions, to honor local asbestos workers and others who died of work-related accidents and disabilities. It also includes a large flag pole, built from steam locomotive bearings, that was moved to the site by local unions in 1996.
The Boston Harbor reclamation project that began in the 1980s became the focus of debate over the legality of PLAs. [12] [13] When the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority elected to use a PLA for the project that mandated union-only labor, [14] the Associated Builders and Contractors of Massachusetts/Rhode Island, Inc. challenged its legality, asserting that the use of a PLA was prohibited ...