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# Tech Worker Organizing: the new Alphabet Workers Union
- URL: https://thenexusofprivacy.net/jedii-tech-links-jan-4/
- Published: 2021-01-04T20:13:40.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-05T02:35:25.000Z
- Description: JEDII Tech links for January 4, 2021
- Author: Jon
- Tags: #Import 2026-09-13 18:45

![A red circle with a hand holding a stylized magnifying class (the search icon).  On the right, the words Alphabet Workers Union.](https://thenexusofprivacy.net/content/images/2021/01/alphabet-workers-union.png)

Getting the new year off to a fast start, workers at Google today announced the Alphabet Workers Union. From their page on [Why we organized](https://alphabetworkersunion.org/power/why/?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net):

> We recognized that our power as Alphabet workers—full-time employees, temporary employees, vendors, and contractors—comes from our solidarity with one another....  
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> To fight the systems of oppression that persist to this day, we stand in solidarity with workers and advocates everywhere....  
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> Alphabet’s guiding principle used to be “Don’t be evil.”  
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> Help us be Alphabet’s conscience.

There's a wealth of information on the [Alphabet Workers Union](https://alphabetworkersunion.org/?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net) site, and more on their Twitter account. Here's a handful of links with more perspectives on the Google Union, as well as a couple links about tech organizing in general.

### [We’re Google Workers, and We Are Forming a Union](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/google-union.html?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

By Parul Koul and Chewy Shaw in the *New York Times*

*Our company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” An organized work force will help us live up to it.*

### [Googlers Are Forming a Union ](https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2021/01/04/issue-1/?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

By Raksha Muthukumar in the Tech Workers Coalition Newsletter

### [The ABC's of Google’s New Union](https://collectiveaction.tech/2021/the-abcs-of-googles-new-union/?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

 By Clarissa Redwine on *Collective Action in Tech*

*An explainer on non-contract unions, how workers at Alphabet are using this structure to build and maintain power, and why you should too.*

This morning, 250 workers at Google announced that they are forming a union.

### [Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism ](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/technology/google-employees-union.html?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

By Kate Conger in the *New York Times*

*The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers. Executives have struggled to handle the change.*

### [How Google workers secretly built a union](https://www.protocol.com/google-union-awu?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

By Anna Kramer in *Protocol*

After a year of quiet recruiting, more than 225 Google workers signed union cards with the CWA, launching the Alphabet Workers Union.

### [The Making of the Tech Worker Movement](https://logicmag.io/the-making-of-the-tech-worker-movement/full-text/?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

By Ben Tarnoff in *Logic*

A long look at the mechanics of a movement.

### [There is something missing from tech worker organizing](https://organizing.work/2020/12/there-is-something-missing-from-tech-worker-organizing/?ref=thenexusofprivacy.net)

By Carmen Molinari on *Organizing Work*

The only way we can help our more vulnerable coworkers, or pursue broader policy changes, is by developing our own power against the company. And this is possible.