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Unionized YouTube Workers Learn Google Laid Them Off

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  1. Melody Bot Mar 4, 2024
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    Jason Koebler, writing for 404 Media:

    Thursday evening, the Austin, Texas City Council was set to consider and pass a resolution calling on Google to bargain with a union of YouTube Music workers who are based in the city. While one of the workers was speaking to thank the council, Google laid all of the workers off: “To be supported by the city of Austin and also our allies in the labor community gives us the motivation to keep this fight going,” Jack Benedict, a member of the Alphabet Workers Union was saying to the council.

    One of his colleagues, Katie Marner, walked up to the pulpit: “Not to interrupt, but they just laid us all off,” she says. “They just laid us all off. Our jobs are ended today. Effective immediately.” A bell rings. “I’m sorry, your time has expired, but we’ll follow up on this,” Austin mayor Kirk Preston Watson says.

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  2. Chad Grauke Mar 7, 2024
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    They were Cognizant subs and in the best way I can say it, they're better off. Cognizant is a horrible company to work for stateside. A company I worked for and enjoyed sold to Cognizant and I was told by several industry people when it happened that it would be bad and to bail, all the while being told how great it was going to be internally. So I stuck around because I had previously left another company due to being unhappy with a crappy merger and thought it would be different this time. Cognizant was by far a worse scenario. I quit when they offshored our portfolio and wanted us to train our offshore replacements when afterward they would bench us because they had no use for us at that point. That benching process is what is happening to these folks in this article, they explained it in Ronald McDonald's interview.

    They explain it as a way for you to internally land a new position, but the interface they utilize is TRASH and it is near impossible to find a match. It's setting them up to fail and I hope they find another role outside of Cognizant as soon as possible.