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YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions (www.businessinsider.com)

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YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions::Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google's refusal to negotiate with the union.

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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

They'd been working on this contract for five years. And the NLRB ruled that Google was a co-employer and must sit down with the union to work out a bargaining agreement. This firing was not to do with their job skills. It was entirely retaliatory.