Google’s ‘Ghost Workers’ are Asking for Labor Rights
From today’s NPR News: An army of workers is behind every Google search you do. They’re there for quality control and try to make sure your results aren’t full of…
U.S. Government Sues Google For Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology
From today’s New York Times: The Justice Department and a group of eight states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally abusing a monopoly over the technology that powers online advertising,…
How Google and Big Tech Are Still Tracking You, Just in a Different Way
From today’s New York Times: The internet industry shuddered last year when Apple introduced privacy measures for the iPhone that threatened to upend online tracking and cripple digital advertising. Google pledged similar privacy actions.…
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Facebook, Google, Amazon Marked Black History Month by Donating to Lawmakers Blocking Voting Rights
From today’s MarketWatch: Some major U.S. companies, including Verizon, Facebook owner Meta, Google parent Alphabet and Amazon.com, have publicly highlighted their efforts to commemorate Black History Month. But those same companies have…
Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism
From today’s New York Times: More than 400 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of the world’s…
Google Illegally Fired And Spied On Workers Trying To Organize, NLRB finds
From today’s NPR News Online: Google illegally fired two employees involved in labor organizing last year, the National Labor Relations Board alleged in a complaint on Wednesday. The tech giant…
The Great Google Revolt
From today’s New York Times: Laurence Berland had just gotten out of the subway in New York, some 3,000 miles from his desk in San Francisco, when he learned that Google…
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A brutal year: how ‘techlash’ caught up with Facebook, Google and Amazon
From The Guardian Online: What goes up must come down, and in 2019, gravity reasserted itself for the tech industry. After years of relatively unchecked growth, the tech industry found…
Google workers want to end mandatory arbitration—Here’s why this matters
From today’s Washington Post: Employees at Google recently organized a phone drive to lobby Congress to end the practice of mandatory or forced arbitration, in which an arbitrator — typically designated by…
Google workers worldwide walk off job to protest its treatment of women
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Carrying signs with messages such as “Don’t be evil,” Google employees around the world are walking off the job Thursday in a protest against what they…