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Google broke the law when it refused to bargain with YouTube Music contract workers, says NLRB.

Google broke the law when it refused to bargain with YouTube Music contract workers, says NLRB.

The National Labor Relations Board ruled that Google’s refusal to bargain with a group of unionized YouTube Music contractors is illegal. The three-member panel decided that despite denials by Google, which owns YouTube Music, and its subcontractor Cognizant, the two are, in fact, joint employers of the Austin-based workers who perform data-related tasks, like finding errors in its charts algorithm.  “At all material times, Respondents Cognizant and Google have codetermined the essential… Source link

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Google ‘rater’ contract workers rally at Mountain View headquarters to demand higher pay

Google ‘rater’ contract workers rally at Mountain View headquarters to demand higher pay

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Dozens of Google workers from across the country rallied at Google headquarters Wednesday to demand higher wages and benefits from Google’s parent company Alphabet. With the backing of the Alphabet Workers Union, a group of Google contract workers known as “raters” made their voices heard on Google’s main campus calling for fair pay and benefits. “I support the largest revenue stream that Google has, and I don’t have healthcare from my employer, and I don’t have the… Source link

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Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle Share DoD Cloud Contract

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle Share DoD Cloud Contract

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded contracts with a combined potential value of up to $9 billion to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program. JWCC is the successor to Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), which attracted contracting controversy and was canceled last year in favor of a multi-cloud approach. Each of the four companies has been awarded a hybrid (firm-fixed-price and time-and-materials,… Source link

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Lamar Jackson’s contract year isn’t going as well as hoped

Lamar Jackson’s contract year isn’t going as well as hoped

There’s not a realistic scenario in which Lamar Jackson doesn’t make a lot of money playing football for the rest of his career. There might be 10-15 truly good NFL quarterbacks this season, and at his best Jackson is one of the best in the game. The “Jackson’s-bet-on-himself-is-a-loser” takes you’ll hear over the next week will be overstated and premature. He’ll get paid. The Washington Commanders made a trade this past offseason so they could pay Carson Wentz $22 million this season. So,… Source link

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