during Thursday's city council meeting members delayed a vote on a resolution calling on Google to bargain with the newly formed Union of workers from YouTube music but the resolution may be no help at all employees have been protesting for the past year for fair pay and an unfair return to office policy and this is a look from their demonstration last year these YouTube music workers are contracted through cognizant they say Google refuses to recognize them as full employees and their calls for
help at Thursday's council meeting got derailed when they found out they were laid off mid meeting one of their leaders was actually speaking during public comment when he found out not Tindra but they just laid us all off oh yeah they they just laid us all off we just all I guess we just all our jobs are ended today effective immediately wow that is awful uh City council members responded after the meeting members zo kre and Vanessa Fuentes say these workers deserve better they definitely do G
oogle employees tell the Austin monitor that this was planned as this was when the contracts with the employees was set to end
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This segment cuts off almost as abruptly as their employment 😢
It's a strange balance you have to have in corporate America but the truth is they were consultants on a contract, the contract is now over and they are no longer needed. The union they belong to isn't official or recognized and only represents Google employess, which they are not. Nicest way I can say it is....they wasted their energy on a deadend situation they weren't going to win and had no leverage. You can't just call yourself a Google employee and force the company to make you one by being as difficult as possible. On the other hand Google was extremely cold to do this without doing a better job of explaining whats happening and why it's happening. But the consultants really were there to do a job and the job is now over, they had no weight to push around.
I've been in the M&A (mergers and acquisitions) business for a while and young people have to understand there are very big differences between contractors (solo or 3rd party provided) and FTEs (full time employees). They do not have the same legal protections.
There is a much better version, mayor says your time is expired. Google says there contact ended. They new there job had a end time. That's what a contract is.... It expires
Youtube Music, $10 a month.......its kind of fitting!
Sad news 😮
There's a recession coming around the mountain when it comes. All the indicators are pointing to it now. Inflation is high, and layoffs are rampant. So, based on history, there's a recession coming around the mountain when it comes
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Lol youtube ytmusic Spotify are all able to be free with just a few searches 😂
imo...it looked staged.
Listening to YouTube music videos all day what does their job entail exactly? They went on strike. I wonder who they voted for, if they are bothered by inflation and the cost of living.😮
That is how employees are valued, disposable, replaceable, and also have the ability to unite against these corporations and change the workforce stipulation. Vote for better politics and don't pay your money or your time to indifferent businesses who set the standard of employment servitude. 🤨
If snowflakes cry, do they melt?