The treatment of subcontracted workers and independent contractors, who in 2018 became the majority of Alphabet’s global workforce, has been another long-running topic of controversy. — Bloomberg
Google contract workers were banned from discussing their pay, and one was suspended for her labour activism, according to a complaint from the Alphabet Workers Union.
In a Thursday filing with the National Labor Relations Board, the union accused the Google vendor Adecco of violating US labour law by trying to silence employees. Management forbid employees at a datacentre in South Carolina from discussing their pay, according to the complaint. The managers also suspended a data technician because of a pro-union Facebook post, according to the union.
