Alphabet Workers Union Statement on YouTube Offering Voluntary Exit Packages

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• captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “This week, our employer has been prominent in the headlines as Alphabet stock reached a record high. We, the workers who generate those profits, deserve to feel secure in our employment. While we celebrate the fact that our organizing is working, with our demand to offer voluntary buyouts before mandatory layoffs becoming a new company standard, we know that the fight is far from over. “

  Apparently, Google has agreed to offer a VEP rather than issue more layoffs?

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  • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Google is such a shitty company morally

    And then it treats you employees like shit

    I hope y’all are looking for new jobs, quietquitting, and monkeywrenching

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It should be illegal to fire employees if you’re a publicly traded company and your stock is going up. Why would you?

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  • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These days firing employees when turning a profit is what makes the stock go up.

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Anything and everything to make the line go up

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is why unions matter.

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  • beella@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The employees knew what they were signing up for.

    If they didn’t want this to happen, they could’ve worked for a different company.

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    • WarmSoda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Jesus. You have the worst takes on everything, don’t you.

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We do not blame workers for their systemic exploitation on Lemmy, particularly those who have organized or are fighting for organization.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You might not be old enough to remember, but there was a time when working at Google was a dream job.

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    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I see. What tech company should have worked for that would have treated them differently?

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    • comador@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nothing screams ‘I need attention’ more than consistently trying to troll everything you post on.

      So what’s wrong beella?

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• beella@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have literally 0 sympathy for anyone working in big tech in 2025.

  They deserve all the abuse they get, and then some.

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  • chobeat@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ok, scab

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