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Google's 'Shadow Workforce' of Contractors Demands Higher Wages, Equal Benefits in a Letter To CEO Sundar Pichai (cnbc.com)
Members of Google's "shadow workforce" of temporary workers and contractors is demanding higher wages and equal benefits to full employees in an open letter addressed to CEO Sundar Pichai. From a report, submitted by an anonymous reader: It's the latest in a series of public stands made by Google employees against aspects of the company culture. A coordinated walkout by employees around the globe protesting discrimination and sexual harassment at Google led the company to end forced arbitration for claims. Last month, several hundred employees signed onto a letter protesting the company's censored search efforts in China. A Bloomberg report in July said Alphabet had more contractors than direct employees this year, for the first time ever.
Google's mission is to 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible.' But the company fails to meet this standard within its own workplace. Google routinely denies [temporary, vendor, and contract workers] access to information that is relevant to our jobs and our lives," the letter published Wednesday says. The latest letter is signed only by "TVCs at Google" and does not indicate the number of employees backing the effort. Google did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.
Google's mission is to 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible.' But the company fails to meet this standard within its own workplace. Google routinely denies [temporary, vendor, and contract workers] access to information that is relevant to our jobs and our lives," the letter published Wednesday says. The latest letter is signed only by "TVCs at Google" and does not indicate the number of employees backing the effort. Google did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.
It's basically ivory tower, champagne socialists, limousine liberals and so forth in action. Don't know why this is a surprise for so many people.
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Yes, how dare they pay people for work at a price those people accept. Or did I miss the part where this was forced labor?
Champagne socialists are still a thousand times better than the I've-got-mine-go-fuck-yourselves conservatives littering this place.
And you are not a human and shouldn't be treated like one.
Like the ones telling me I should be killed for voting for Trump? Happened yesterday.
Or the ones saying if GOP doesn't support Obamacare they shouldn't be allowed to get any medical treatment ever?
I think you are probably one of those "I've-got-mine-go-fuck-yourselves" liberals, which we can find here on /. more easily.
By the way, what is the policy for death threats on /.? I've been getting quite a few lately from liberals.
Champagne socialists are still a thousand times better than the I've-got-mine-go-fuck-yourselves conservatives littering this place.
So, the person so massively out of touch that they believe they have the right to your money, the right to restrict your speech, the right to dictate how you live. Are better then the people who want to be left the fuck alone.
That's brilliant.
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