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CNN  —  Google’s refusal to bargain with unionized YouTube Music workers is illegal, a Wednesday ruling from the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found. After a group of Texas-based contract workers for YouTube Music unanimously voted last April to join the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), Google refused to bargain over… Source link

The Guardian Ghislaine Maxwell kept awake at night so she doesn’t die like Epstein, lawyers say Appeals judges expressed concern about guards shining light into the British socialite’s cell every 15 minutes A courtroom sketch shows Ghislaine Maxwell during her arraignment hearing on a new indictment at Manhattan federal court in New York City last week. Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters Appeals judges hearing bail arguments seemed sympathetic on Monday to claims that the British socialite… Source link

Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems has filed a complaint against Google in France alleging that the US tech giant is illegally tracking users on Android phones without their consent. Android phones generate unique advertising codes, similar to Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), that allow Google and third parties to track users’ browsing behaviour in order to better target them with advertising. In a complaint filed on Wednesday, Schrems’ campaign group Noyb… Source link

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 Shannon Bond / NPR 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 also violated federal labor law, the agency said, by surveilling employees who viewed a union organizing presentation, interrogating others, unfairly enforcing some rules and maintaining policies that “discourage” workers… Source link

Google employees at the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, walk off the job to protest the company’s handling of sexual misconduct claims. Mason Trinca | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.S. National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against Google and its parent company Alphabet, accusing the tech juggernaut of violating labor laws. The company was allegedly “interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of their rights guaranteed in… Source link

Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers who were organizing employee protests, then firing two of them, according to a complaint to be filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today. The complaint names two employees, Laurence Berland and Kathryn Spiers, both of whom were fired by the company in late 2019 in connection with employee activism. Berland was organizing against Google’s decision to work with IRI Consultants, a firm widely known for its anti-union… Source link