Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA)

22 May

Googlers for Job Security Take Google I/O Demo Day! 💻 This year’s Google I/O took place amid mass layoffs at our peer Big Tech companies. AWU members came out to canvass our coworkers and invite them into our campaign for common-sense job security protections at Google.

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22 May

Join our movement: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter

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AFL-CIO

@aflcio.org

theguardian.comUS employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report findsCritics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers

So bosses in America spend $1.5 BILLION every year on - *checks notes* - “labor union avoidance.” Instead of ridiculously expensive union-busting consultants and lawyers, wouldn’t it be better to invest that money in the workers who create profit?

DON'T MOURN, ORGANIZE!✊ On May 20, 2026, Meta performed a mass round of layoffs, eliminating approximately 8,000 roles. In response, the elected Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA Local 9009 released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...

If you’re an Alphabet worker who woke up today scared that you could be next, join over 4,000 Googlers and sign the Googlers for Job Security petition: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter

go.awu.fyiJoinJoin the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA!

We are building a fighting union of tech workers who know our power – join Alphabet Workers Union, and let’s chart a future for the tech industry together in which workers have a real voice: go.awu.fyi/join

guaranteed severance, voluntary buyouts before mandatory layoffs, no GRAD quotas, and the option to take severance as leave. Together, Googlers have won voluntary exit packages (VEPs), which have been offered to over 70,000 of our coworkers to date.

This is an anomaly in our industry, and we know it came about as a result of our organizing.

It might feel like we're powerless in the face of these overwhelming market forces, but as the tech workers who power these companies, we are the people best positioned to do something about it. The products generating massive profits for companies like Meta and Google don’t exist without our labor.

That’s why we say to Googlers and tech workers across the industry: don’t mourn, organize! Since early 2025, thousands of Googlers for Job Security have been organizing at Google campuses across the U.S. around four key demands for increased job security protections:

As Big Tech companies attempt to nudge ahead of each other in the AI race, our daily work lives are shifting. It’s undeniable that our whole industry is being transformed by the corporate push to adopt new AI tools.

It’s hard not to feel anxiety and fear when we can see more and more tech companies cutting huge portions of their workforce both in anticipation of replacing them with AI, and to fund their multi-billion-dollar bets on AI as the future of the industry.

It’s another dark week in the tech industry. When Googlers hear that 8,000 of our fellow tech workers at Meta have been laid off via an email, we think of our coworkers who arrived at Google campuses in January 2023 only to find their badges had been deactivated.

CEOs of tech companies will wax poetic about the valuable contributions of tech workers, but these callous actions speak louder than words.

13 May

What's disgusting? Union busting! AWU members in NYC came out to Brooklyn Borough Hall last Friday to rally against retaliation with our fellow unionized tech workers @kickstarterunited.org! Since workers won their strike last year, Kickstarter has fired FOUR union leaders in retaliation.

actionnetwork.orgKickstarter: Stop the Retaliation! Reinstate our Teammates NowOn February 18th, 2020, Kickstarter employees voted to form a union, becoming the first major tech company in the United States to do so. Since then, we have bargained for two contracts. On October 2...

13 May

AWU calls on Kickstarter to reinstate these workers NOW! Join us in sending a letter to the Kickstarter CEO: actionnetwork.org/letters/kick...

6 May

Solidarity with our @utaw.tech fam in the UK! ✊

United Tech & Allied Workers@utaw.tech

BREAKING: Google DeepMind workers in UK have voted 98% in favour of unionising — demanding an end to AI use by Israel and the US military for perpetrating genocide in Gaza. If successful, they’ll be the first frontier AI lab in the world to unionise.

While Alphabet’s leadership was busy reporting on another quarter of strong profits today, the average Googler is working in an atmosphere of fear and anxiety driven by rampant layoffs throughout our industry. We know that Alphabet workers do our best work when we feel secure in our employment.

That’s why Googlers for Job Security have come together to organize around four reasonable demands: guaranteed severance, no GRAD quotas, voluntary buyouts before layoffs, and severance as leave.

We were out on Google campuses across the country today spreading the word about our campaign and gathering signatures from our coworkers. Have you signed yet? Join us: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter

Alphabet is getting ready to report Q1 profits today, and the workers whose labor generated those profits are speaking out. Visit go.awu.fyi/job-security now to check out hundreds of photos of Googlers explaining why we’re fighting for job security at Alphabet together!

28 Apr

We are Googlers for Job Security. We live and work in many different locations. We hold a diversity of job titles. We even have a multitude of reasons that we joined this movement. But we are united in our belief that all Googlers deserve to feel secure in our employment!

go.awu.fyiJob SecurityWe are Google workers from offices in the US and Canada fighting for job security.

28 Apr

Visit our newly updated campaign page to learn more and get involved: go.awu.fyi/job-security

27 Apr

Is the current tech landscape causing you anxiety? Does every layoff announcement only deepen this fear? You're not alone. Every one of your coworkers featured in this collage has felt the same way. But we stand united as Googlers for Job Security to say: don’t panic, organize!

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27 Apr

Thousands of Googlers for Job Security have joined our movement for guaranteed severance, voluntary buyouts before layoffs, no GRAD quotas, and severance as leave. VEPs have now been offered to over 70,000 Googlers, and we’re just getting started. Join us: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter

uniglobalunion.orgGoogle Korea union warns of strike over stalled talksGoogle Korea union warns of strike over stalled talks

11 Mar

From the U.S. to Korea, Alphabet workers are experiencing increasing job insecurity - but we're organizing and fighting back together. The Alphabet Workers Union stands in solidarity with our union siblings in the Google Korea Union! Google must come to the table NOW!

UNI Global Union@uniglobalunion.org

⚠️Years of talks. Dozens of bargaining sessions. Still no deal. Now the Google Korea union is warning a strike could be on the table.

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No Tech For Apartheid

@notechforapartheid.bsky.social

We represent groups of workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our organizations typically focus on a range of issues, from better workplace protections to the pursuit of environmental justice and the demilitarization of our technology. This is our first statement together.

After learning the Pentagon has demanded that Anthropic abandon all AI safety guardrails in their contract with the U.S. military – and that Anthropic has refused to capitulate to these demands – Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...

If this latest standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic angers you and makes you scared about whether Google is next, we urge you to turn that fear into action.

alphabetworkersunion.orgOrganizeWhether you’d like to get involved with AWU-CWA or have further questions about unionizing, this page will point you in the right direction.

Join the Alphabet Workers Union and organize with us. It is through building sustained worker power that we can truly have a say over our direct working conditions and the impact that our work has on the world. www.alphabetworkersunion.org/organize

In recent years, Alphabet’s 2018 AI Principles have been all but abandoned alongside a complete lack of transparency over whether individual workers are contributing to military applications through our work.

Now, many of us worry that if put in a similar position to Anthropic, Google would capitulate to the Pentagon’s demands. The only way we can ensure this doesn’t happen and confront these issues with enough power is by building a strong, fighting union.

medium.comWorker Groups Representing 700,000 Demand: Amazon, Google, Microsoft Must Reject Pentagon's DemandsReject The Pentagon’s Demands.

The Alphabet Workers Union joins with our allies in signing on to our joint statement and in calling on our employers to reject the Pentagon’s advances and provide workers with transparency about contracts with state agencies including DHS, CBP, and ICE: medium.com/@notechforap...

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TechEquity

@techequity.bsky.social

25 Feb

In late 2024, @tahlia-k.bsky.social and her coworkers became the first @alphabetworkersunion.org members on the Google Help team to secure a collective bargaining agreement with Google vendor Accenture that includes workplace tech protections. How did they do it? www.youtube.com/shorts/_lMcd...

youtube.comWorker power starts with building community 💪YouTube video by TechEquity

instagram.comOn the Line | Big tech companies make up the backbone of ICE operations, but tech workers are calling out their companies' complicity with ICE terror.... | Instagram607 likes, 11 comments - laborontheline on February 17, 2026: "Big tech companies make up the backbone of ICE operations, but tech workers are calling out their companies' complicity with ICE terror.....

18 Feb

Our elected AWU Comms Chair Emma Jackson spoke with Labor On the Line about opposing Big Tech's ICE contracts and the importance of building union power at Google. Check out the video on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DU3kiHigv2y/

alphabetworkersunion.orgFind Your ChapterWhether you’re close to a land chapter or working remotely, get connected to your chapter lead and chapter events.

18 Feb

Ready to join us? Find your chapter and get plugged in: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/find-your-ch...

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Kickstarter United

@kickstarterunited.org

18 Feb

Despite being back at work, Kickstarter is retaliating against our teammates for our legally-protected strike action from last year. Tell Kickstarter’s CEO this is both ILLEGAL and UNACCEPTABLE

14 Feb

Roses are red, layoffs are bad. Go/job-security – signing is rad! Happy Valentine's Day from Googlers for Job Security! We’d LOVE it if you joined our movement for change at Google. Sign the petition at go.awu.fyi/job-security (or on-corp at the address in the poem above!) 💌

💌 Will you sign our Googlers for Job Security petition? 💌 Fresh off our latest win, today Googlers on campuses across the country got together to write Valentines to our coworkers inviting them to join our movement!

Join us in fighting for guaranteed severance, voluntary buyouts before mandatory layoffs, no GRAD quotas, and severance as leave. Sign the petition: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter

For more info on our aforementioned VEP win, check out the AWU statement: bsky.app/profile/alph...

Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA)@alphabetworkersunion.org

✊ ORGANIZING WORKS ✊ On Feb 10, Google once again expanded their Voluntary Exit Packages, offering VEPs to workers in Global Business & Operations for the 1st time and to Platforms & Devices for a 2nd time. The AWU EBoard released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...

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Googlers, now is the time to build union power at Alphabet! Visit go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter to sign the Googlers for Job Security petition and join our movement!

9 Feb

AWU members in the Bay Area are standing in solidarity with United Educators of SF, who went on strike today for the first time in nearly 50 years! If you’re an AWU member in the Bay, join us on the UESF picket lines for as long as it takes for our educators to win the contract they deserve! #1u

3 Feb

Last week, our members & coworkers stood up against the fear & division ICE is attempting to sow and showed our power at local demonstrations, including the National Day of Action on Jan 30. Hundreds of members joined actions throughout the week and united in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors!

28 Jan

AWU STATEMENT ✍️ In response to the increase in ICE violence across the country and in Minnesota, the Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab... "An attack on any immigrant worker is an attack on all of us."

cwa-union.orgCWA Members Under Attack From FedsThroughout history, as governments claw back democratic power from the people, their clash with labor unions becomes inevitable.

26 Jan

Join us tomorrow for an important discussion on tech worker organizing feat Alphabet Workers Union member Tahlia Kirk!

TechEquity@techequity.bsky.social

Moderated by @german-c.bsky.social & @tnewmsblues.bsky.social. Panelists include: - Tahlia Kirk, @alphabetworkersunion.org - Varun Iyengar, @amzn4climate.bsky.social - Lisa Kresge, Senior Researcher, Tech and Work Program @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social Register now: techequity.us/event/worker...

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CWA

@cwaunion.bsky.social

22 Jan

The Trump administration has unleashed masked federal agents on city streets, including Washington, D.C., LA, Chicago, Charlotte, & now Minneapolis. Over the past month, CWA has witnessed several instances of aggression toward our members. THREAD ---> cwa-union.org/news/cwa-mem...