- Unite Here, a 300,000-member union of hotel and food service workers, has strived to unionize Silicon Valley cafeteria workers since 2018, experiencing maximum success at Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google, the Washington Post reports.
- The cooks and servers behind Google’s popular cafeterias are third-party contractors deprived of the generous perks and benefits.
- Employed by the contract companies Compass and Guckenheimer, those unionized now make up 90% of total food services workers at Google.
- Also Read: New Starbucks CEO To Focus On Unions, Pay And Benefits As Part Of ‘Reinvention’ Plan
- Workers have unionized at 23 Google offices nationwide, including in Seattle and San Jose.
- Google workers in Atlanta employed by Sodexo cafeteria company voiced their list of demands, including their plan to unionize. Around 6% of workers in Georgia are unionized, compared with 18% in California and 24% in New York.
- Google acknowledged its broadmindedness over unionization.
- The average unionized worker at a Google cafeteria makes $24 an hour, pays little to nothing for health insurance, and has access to a pension plan. At Sodexo-run Google cafeterias, workers make $15 an hour and pay premiums in the hundreds of dollars.
- A tight labor market combined with soaring inflation and pandemic-related safety concerns among front-line workers triggered a surge in unionization. Tens of thousands more workers voted to join unions in the first half of this year than in the first six months of 2021.
- Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) has seen a growing number of warehouse workers opting for unionization in quest of higher pay and safety improvements.
- Price Action: GOOG shares traded higher by 0.48% at $109.20 in the premarket on the last check Tuesday.
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