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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 22/05/2026

Googlers for Job Security Take Google I/O Demo Day! 💻 This year’s Google I/O took place amid mass layoffs at our peer Big Tech companies. AWU members came out to canvass our coworkers and invite them into our campaign for common-sense job security protections at Google.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 21/05/2026

So bosses in America spend $1.5 BILLION every year on - *checks notes* - “labor union avoidance.” Instead of ridiculously expensive union-busting consultants and lawyers, wouldn’t it be better to invest that money in the workers who create profit?

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US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds

Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 21/05/2026

DON'T MOURN, ORGANIZE!✊ On May 20, 2026, Meta performed a mass round of layoffs, eliminating approximately 8,000 roles. In response, the elected Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA Local 9009 released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...

a dark red graphic with white writing: “DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE! Alphabet Workers Union Statement on Meta Layoffs” and a photo of tech workers on May Day holding big banners - “Googlers for Job Security” and “Tech Workers Must Organize!” at the bottom is photo credit for Jimmy Wu of the Bay Area Current.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 13/05/2026

What's disgusting? Union busting! AWU members in NYC came out to Brooklyn Borough Hall last Friday to rally against retaliation with our fellow unionized tech workers @kickstarterunited.org! Since workers won their strike last year, Kickstarter has fired FOUR union leaders in retaliation.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 30/04/2026

While Alphabet’s leadership was busy reporting on another quarter of strong profits today, the average Googler is working in an atmosphere of fear and anxiety driven by rampant layoffs throughout our industry. We know that Alphabet workers do our best work when we feel secure in our employment.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 29/04/2026

Alphabet is getting ready to report Q1 profits today, and the workers whose labor generated those profits are speaking out. Visit go.awu.fyi/job-security now to check out hundreds of photos of Googlers explaining why we’re fighting for job security at Alphabet together!

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 28/04/2026

We are Googlers for Job Security. We live and work in many different locations. We hold a diversity of job titles. We even have a multitude of reasons that we joined this movement. But we are united in our belief that all Googlers deserve to feel secure in our employment!

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 27/04/2026

Is the current tech landscape causing you anxiety? Does every layoff announcement only deepen this fear? You're not alone. Every one of your coworkers featured in this collage has felt the same way. But we stand united as Googlers for Job Security to say: don’t panic, organize!

a collage with hundreds of vertical photos of Googlers holding paper signs that read “I’m fighting for job security at Alphabet because...” with handwritten answers to the prompt.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 11/03/2026

From the U.S. to Korea, Alphabet workers are experiencing increasing job insecurity - but we're organizing and fighting back together. The Alphabet Workers Union stands in solidarity with our union siblings in the Google Korea Union! Google must come to the table NOW!

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We represent groups of workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our organizations typically focus on a range of issues, from better workplace protections to the pursuit of environmental justice and the demilitarization of our technology. This is our first statement together.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 27/02/2026

After learning the Pentagon has demanded that Anthropic abandon all AI safety guardrails in their contract with the U.S. military – and that Anthropic has refused to capitulate to these demands – Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...

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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

In late 2024, @tahlia-k.bsky.social and her coworkers became the first @alphabetworkersunion.org members on the Google Help team to secure a collective bargaining agreement with Google vendor Accenture that includes workplace tech protections. How did they do it? www.youtube.com/shorts/_lMcd...

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Worker power starts with building community 💪

YouTube video by TechEquity

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 18/02/2026

Despite being back at work, Kickstarter is retaliating against our teammates for our legally-protected strike action from last year. Tell Kickstarter’s CEO this is both ILLEGAL and UNACCEPTABLE

Reinstate our teammates now!
Kickstarter is retaliating against our union members for our legally-protected strike action in October 2025.
Four union members have been laid off or forced to leave our union by leadership, despite clear business needs for these members' roles.
Email Kickstarter's CEO and tell him this is illegal and unacceptable!
e@kickstarter.com

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 14/02/2026

Roses are red, layoffs are bad. Go/job-security – signing is rad! Happy Valentine's Day from Googlers for Job Security! We’d LOVE it if you joined our movement for change at Google. Sign the petition at go.awu.fyi/job-security (or on-corp at the address in the poem above!) 💌

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 12/02/2026

💌 Will you sign our Googlers for Job Security petition? 💌 Fresh off our latest win, today Googlers on campuses across the country got together to write Valentines to our coworkers inviting them to join our movement!

four Googlers wearing Googlers for Job Security t-shirts and holding roses with red script overlaying: "will you sign our job security petition?"

a collage of four Googlers writing Valentines to their coworkers asking them to sign the Googlers for Job Security petition.

three Googlers in Googlers for Job Security t-shirts with their pink and red chains to signify signatures on the Googlers for Job Security petition

photos of Googlers in MTV, CA and Pittsburgh, PA wearing Googlers for Job Security t-shirts and tabling on their campuses for petition signatures

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 12/02/2026

✊ ORGANIZING WORKS ✊ On Feb 10, Google once again expanded their Voluntary Exit Packages, offering VEPs to workers in Global Business & Operations for the 1st time and to Platforms & Devices for a 2nd time. The AWU EBoard released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...

a red graphic with a group photo of workers in gray Googlers for Job Security tshirts raising their fists. Gray text reads: “ORGANIZING WORKS! Alphabet Workers Union Statement on Expanded VEPs.”

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 09/02/2026

AWU members in the Bay Area are standing in solidarity with United Educators of SF, who went on strike today for the first time in nearly 50 years! If you’re an AWU member in the Bay, join us on the UESF picket lines for as long as it takes for our educators to win the contract they deserve! #1u

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 03/02/2026

Last week, our members & coworkers stood up against the fear & division ICE is attempting to sow and showed our power at local demonstrations, including the National Day of Action on Jan 30. Hundreds of members joined actions throughout the week and united in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors!

a group of AWU members stand in the snow in NYC, some with fists raised, at the Vigil for Alex Pretti.

a group of AWU members wearing their red union pins in the PNW at a coordinated day of action against ICE.

AWU members in red union t-shirts marching in the Bay Area at the Jan 30 Day of Action in solidarity with immigrants and against ICE.

A group of AWU members, many raising their fists and holding ICE OUT and TECH WORKERS AGAINST ICE signs, at a Jan 30 Day of Action in Boston, MA.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 28/01/2026

AWU STATEMENT ✍️ In response to the increase in ICE violence across the country and in Minnesota, the Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab... "An attack on any immigrant worker is an attack on all of us."

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 26/01/2026

Join us tomorrow for an important discussion on tech worker organizing feat Alphabet Workers Union member Tahlia Kirk!

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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The Trump administration has unleashed masked federal agents on city streets, including Washington, D.C., LA, Chicago, Charlotte, & now Minneapolis. Over the past month, CWA has witnessed several instances of aggression toward our members. THREAD ---> cwa-union.org/news/cwa-mem...

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CWA Members Under Attack From Feds

Throughout history, as governments claw back democratic power from the people, their clash with labor unions becomes inevitable.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 21/01/2026

Tech workers say: ICE out of our neighborhoods! Alphabet Workers Union members in Boston and San Francisco hit the streets yesterday in solidarity with communities resisting ICE in Minneapolis and in our own backyards.

a group of AWU members in red Alphabet Workers Union tshirts raise their fists and hold signs at an anti-ICE demonstration in San Francisco.

a group of AWU members bundled up for the cold and raising their fists at an anti-ICE demonstration in Boston.

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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

@german-c.bsky.social and @tnewmsblues.bsky.social will moderate the conversation. Panelists include: - Tahlia Kirk @alphabetworkersunion.org - Lisa Kresge @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social - Varun Iyengar @amzn4climate.bsky.social REGISTER NOW: techequity.us/event/worker...

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 21/01/2026

AWU member Tahlia Kirk will be featured on this important panel on organizing in tech! Join us⬇️

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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A message from CWA President Claude Cummings Jr.: Today we honor, as a union and as a nation, Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., one of the greatest civil rights leaders in our shared history. Thread -->

A graphic that says MLK Jr. Day. "We can all get more together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power." - Martin Luther King Jr.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 16/01/2026

One day longer, one day stronger! AWU members in NYC hit the picket lines today in solidarity with @nynurses.bsky.social fighting for safe staffing, healthcare benefits, patient safety, and a fair contract! #1u #NYCNurseStrike

A group of AWU members raising their fists and holding signs at the NYSNA picket

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 15/01/2026

On January 4, 2026, Alphabet Workers Union turned 5! To celebrate our union’s 5th birthday, AWU members reflected on our first 5 years as a union. Some of us are founding members and some of us joined just this month – but we're all building worker power at Alphabet.

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Washington Post Guild @postguild.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 12/01/2026

Solidarity with NYC nurses on strike starting TODAY!

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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Tech giants are making massive investments in generative AI, integrating it into their existing products and selling access to the foundational models to other businesses and consumers. But all that money and power isn’t making its way down to the people who make AI actually work: data workers.

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

New from @noamscheiber.bsky.social, featuring @emilymazo.bsky.social @js-tan.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org @alphabetworkersunion.org & many more: “tech worker activism has continued amid the crackdown, albeit more cautiously” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...

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Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 23/12/2025

We’re Googlers for Job Security, and we’re headed into the holiday break feeling more united than ever. Hundreds and hundreds of Google workers have taken action for job security this year. Have you? Sign the petition and join our movement: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 18/12/2025

AWU STATEMENT✍️ In response to last week’s announcement that Google has entered into a partnership with the U.S. Department of War, the elected Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/awu-st...

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 17/12/2025

Forget Labubu keychains and Owala water bottles – Googlers for Job Security t-shirts were this year’s hottest trend in the Google offices! Together, we’re organizing for guaranteed severance, buyouts before layoffs, no GRAD quotas, and severance as leave. Join us: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter

a collage of two photos of groups of Googlers for Job Security wearing their black Googlers For Job Security t-shirts on a Day of Visibility at the Google offices in November.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 11/12/2025

We are Googlers for Job Security, and we are organizing around a shared vision of a Google where workers no longer live in constant fear of layoffs. Sign the petition and join our movement: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 06/12/2025

When tech workers’ rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back! AWU members from the New York chapter braved the cold today to stand up against union busting at Rockstar Games in the UK and Canada!

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 04/12/2025

ICYMI: thousands of Googlers are united in our fight for job security. At a time when tech layoffs dominate the headlines despite companies reporting massive profits, Google workers are organizing together for a new way forward at Alphabet.

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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Despite making critical contributions to the booming AI industry, data workers often report that they aren’t treated like the skilled, valuable workers that they are. So, from @alphabetworkersunion.org to @turkopticon.bsky.social, data workers are organizing for better pay and working conditions.

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

“When people who make AI seem trustworthy are those who trust it the least, experts believe it signals a larger issue” For more, check out @techequity.bsky.social @alphabetworkersunion.org @cwaunion.bsky.social report based on research w workers featured in the article cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

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Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:

U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Happy to come out for the Day of Visibility and support our coworkers!

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 21/11/2025

Today, Googlers for Job Security from coast to coast showed up and showed out for our Day of Visibility. Together, we’re organizing for real job security at Google: guaranteed severance, buyouts before layoffs, no GRAD quotas, and severance as leave. Join the movement: go.awu.fyi/job-security

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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Who protects the people protecting us online? Only 23% of U.S. data workers—including content moderators—surveyed by @alphabetworkersunion.org and TechEquity are covered by health insurance from their employer.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 13/11/2025

When we fight, we win! We were so proud to stand with our @kickstarterunited.org union fam during their strike - congrats on such a huge victory!

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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Despite making critical contributions to the booming AI industry, data workers in the U.S. and beyond often report that they aren’t treated like the skilled, valuable workers that they are.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 03/11/2025

ICYMI: Googlers in the YouTube PA were offered voluntary buyouts instead of mandatory layoffs, a key demand of our job security campaign. "The Alphabet Workers Union applauded the move as evidence that organizing efforts are influencing corporate policy." www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...

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7,500 Google and YouTube employees offered buyouts

The offers come as parent company Alphabet reported record quarterly earnings of $102.35 billion this week.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 31/10/2025

VEPs Expanded to Googlers in YouTube ✊ Just one day after Amazon announced layoffs for 14,000 of its employees, Alphabet made it clear that mandatory layoffs are not inevitable in the tech industry.

a bright red graphic with photos of AWU members wearing black Googlers For Job Security t-shirts, holding flyers, and raising their fists. White text reads: ORGANIZING WORKS! VEPs Expanded to Googlers in YouTube, along with the white Alphabet Workers Union in the lower right hand corner.

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