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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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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

We were out on Google campuses across the country today spreading the word about our campaign and gathering signatures from our coworkers. Have you signed yet? Join us: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter

A group selfie of six AWU members tabling at a Google campus in Pittsburgh with a big banner of photos of Googlers for Job Security supporters, holding clipboards and flyers.

two AWU members pose outside a Google campus in Cambridge with a giant banner with a collage of photos of Googlers for Job Security supporters, holding clipboards and flyers.

two AWU members pose outside a Google campus in Mountain View holding clipboards and flyers of a collage of photos of Googlers for Job Security supporters.

two AWU members display a large poster collage of Googlers for Job Security supporters, wearing Googlers for Job Security t-shirts and tabling in a cafeteria on a Colorado Google campus with an Alphabet Workers Union banner draped over the table.

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

That’s why Googlers for Job Security have come together to organize around four reasonable demands: guaranteed severance, no GRAD quotas, voluntary buyouts before layoffs, and severance as leave.

a photo of six Googlers for Job Security/AWU members in SF at work in front of a table decorated with a big collage banner of photos of Googlers for Job Security supporters, holding clipboards and flyers, and raising their fists.

Three AWU members wearing Googlers for Job Security t-shirts in a Google cafeteria in NYC holding clipboards and flyers with a big collage of Googlers for Job Security supporters.

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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 · 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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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

Join us in fighting for guaranteed severance, voluntary buyouts before mandatory layoffs, no GRAD quotas, and severance as leave. Sign the petition: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter

four Googlers at a table in San Bruno, CA with candy and balloons for Valentines Day

Googlers in Cambridge and the PNW wear Googlers for Job Security t-shirts and give out candy and Valentines postcards at tables on campus

four Googlers in NYC wearing their Googlers for Job Security t-shirt pose for a photo at the Valentines Day of Action

a photo of workers in Googlers for Job Security t-shirts in San Francisco and at their table in G4JS shirts in NYC at a Valentines Day of Action

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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 · 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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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

It’s so important that we continue to build our union at Alphabet! Ready to join us? Visit go.awu.fyi/join

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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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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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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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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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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 28/10/2025

TLDR: tech workers, get organized! The Alphabet Workers Union has issued a statement in response to Amazon’s announcement that it will lay off 14,000 corporate workers: “Now is the time for us to stand together collectively, so we have power and a real voice in our industry.”

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 27/10/2025

The future of the tech industry is unionized! Hear directly from some of our members why they organize with the Alphabet Workers Union. Ready to join us? www.alphabetworkersunion.org/join

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 24/10/2025

Yesterday, @kickstarterunited.org marked three weeks on strike. AWU member Francis Blesso joined our union family to rally in Boston and show our union’s unwavering solidarity with our fellow tech workers as they fight for the strong second contract they deserve! #1u

AWU member Francis Blesso wears his red Alphabet Workers Union t-shirt as he speaks at a Kickstarter United strike rally

A Kickstarter United member speaks at a strike rally, with an AWU member wearing his red union tshirt holding a sign and supporting in the background.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 22/10/2025

Join the Googlers For Job Security movement! We’re hosting a town hall TOMORROW, Thu, Oct 23, 1 PM PT/4 PM ET, where we’ll discuss the importance of our new “severance as leave” demand, what comes next in our job security campaign, and what part you can play! RSVP: go.awu.fyi/g4js-town-hall

five AWU members wearing AWU and Googlers For Job Security tshirts hold flyers and raise their fists as they flyer their coworkers in San Francisco.

a group of AWU members in New York hold flyers and wear Googlers For Job Security tshirts as they get ready to flyer their coworkers.

three Cambridge AWU members hold flyers as they flyer their coworkers outside the Google offices.

a selfie of three AWU members in Mountain View, CA mid flyering

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 07/10/2025

Check out a short clip from AWU member Ritchie Thai's speech in Seattle last week - and visit kickstarterunited.org/#what-you-can-do for ways to support our union family as they fight for the contract they deserve!

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 07/10/2025

Tech workers united will never be defeated! Alphabet Workers Union members in Seattle and New York City turned out in solidarity with @kickstarterunited.org members ON STRIKE for a fair second contract! #1u

a big group of workers, including AWU members and striking Kickstarter United workers, hold Kickstarter United signs at a rally in Seattle.

Two NYC AWU members hold a Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 sign as they participate in a rally in solidarity with Kickstarted United workers on strike.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 03/10/2025

STATEMENT: AWU strongly opposes the mandatory layoffs taking place across UX related roles in the Cloud product area this week. These mandatory layoffs not only blindside and devastate our affected coworkers, but also contribute to an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty for everyone at Alphabet.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 02/10/2025

We're fighting for job security for ALL of us – including our coworkers on H-1B visas. Last month, AWU added a new demand to our Googlers For Job Security campaign: severance as leave, so that workers on visas have extra time on the payroll to find a new job & maintain their legal status in the US.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 30/09/2025

🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨 AWU teamed up with @techequity.bsky.social & @cwaunion.bsky.social to produce a report - Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation - documenting the working conditions of the workers behind the AI boom. cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

A TechEquity/AWU graphic with a photo of Kirn Gill III and the following text: “There are low paid people who are not even treated as humans - just little more than employee ID numbers - out there making the 1 billion dollar, trillion dollar Al systems that are supposed to lead our entire society and civilization into the future. -Kirn Gill II Search Quality Rater working on Google products at Telus.”

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 23/09/2025

Googlers For Job Security made PIX11 News last night! Tech workers refuse to be divided; we're fighting for job security for ALL of us. Join the movement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/job-security

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 22/09/2025

HAPPENING NOW: Alphabet Workers Union members are outside of the Google offices in NYC speaking out against the Trump administration’s H-1B visa proclamation! Tune in: www.facebook.com/AlphabetWork...

AWU members hold a press conference outside google in nyc

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 19/09/2025

Panelists include: 💻 John Donovan, Senior Reviewer at GlobalLogic, AWU member 💻 Emily Albert, Search Quality Rater at RWS, AWU member 💻 Jason Sosnoff, film producer 💻 Uta Briesewitz, film director Snag your ticket: gathr.com/events/184d4...

a blue tinted graphic featuring a photo of Lili Reinhart wearing headphones as a content moderator in the movie American Sweatshop, overlaid with text: AMERICAN SWEATSHOP SCREENING AND PANEL HOSTED BY AWU-CWA & BRAINSTORM MEDIA

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 18/09/2025

Spotted: AWU members on Google campuses from coast to coast talking to our coworkers about Googlers For Job Security ✊

a group of NYC AWU members wearing black Googlers For Job Security tshirts hold flyers as they get ready to chat with their coworkers outside their workplace.

two AWU members in Austin wearing their black Googlers For Job Security tshirts pose for the camera as they get ready to flyer their coworkers.

three AWU members in Durham wear their black Googlers For Job Security tshirts; two wear birthday party hats and they stand in front of a whiteboard on which it’s been written: “ASK US ABOUT AWU!”

four AWU members in Sunnyvale wear their black Googlers For Job Security tshirts and hold flyers as they pose near one of the Sunnyvale campus’s Google sign and get ready to flyer their coworkers.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 09/09/2025

AWU has continuously engaged in Google’s antitrust case, submitting a brief urging the court to protect & empower Alphabet workers when considering remedies. Following last week’s final judgment, Comms Chair Stephen McMurtry reacts @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/empowered-wo...

white text on red background: “Workers are a crucial line of defense against unlawful or noncompliant behavior by management. We see it first. Yet too often, fear of reprisals and the instinct of self-preservation keep workers from speaking out. When workers have a union, and when the union’s legitimacy is recognized, those calculations can change. -Stephen McMurtry, AWU-CWA Comms Chair.”

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 08/09/2025

This Labor Day, AWU members turned out in San Jose, San Francisco, and Boston, joining hundreds of unions across the country to show that we’re ready to fight against horrific attacks against the immigrant community, endless cuts to public programs, and police repression of working class movements✊

a group of Bay Area AWU members wearing red AWU tshirts, raising their fists, or holding a “WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES” sign at a Labor Day event in San Jose, CA.

three AWU members wear red AWU tshirts and hold signs – one a gravestone for ICE, 2003-today, and the other reading “JOIN A UNION” - as they participate in a 2025 Labor Day event in San Francisco.

a group of Boston area AWU members wearing red AWU tshirts and raising their fists at the Boston Labor Day Parade.

an AWU member wearing his red union tshirt speaks into a microphone on stage in front of a big “WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES” sign at a 2025 San Jose, CA Labor Day event.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 14/08/2025

The Life of a Union Organizer at Alphabet 🧡 Join us in organizing for the job security every Googler deserves! Visit go.awu.fyi/job-security today to get involved!

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 18/07/2025

Hear from some of our members about why we started organizing with the Alphabet Workers Union! Why do you organize with AWU? Ready to join us? Visit go.awu.fyi/join today!

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 28/06/2025

This Pride Month, the Alphabet Workers Union is here to remind everyone that pride has always been a protest! In that spirit, we reflected on the history of @prideatwork and our own union’s history of fighting for LGBTIQA+ rights. Check it out on our Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DLcgm58sU1...

a black textured graphic with rainbow text: “Alphabet Workers Union Commemorates Pride 2025” with a photo of AWU members protesting in the streets alongside a black and white photo of ACT UP protesters also protesting in the streets.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 27/06/2025

AWU members left feeling energized and excited to continue growing our union! Interested in getting more involved with AWU? Reach out to your local chapter and find out how you can plug in to building power with your coworkers: alphabetworkersunion.org/find-your-chapter

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 27/06/2025

We shared our unique perspectives as Google workers – from FTEs to TVCs – and learned from each other’s experiences. We examined historical case studies, asked vital questions, and planned for the next phase of our Googlers For Job Security campaign.

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 27/06/2025

Something magical happens when AWU members get together to discuss the important work of building our union. Our members showed up to our 2025 Leadership Summits, our annual weekend-long organizer training, ready to immerse ourselves in reflection, skill-building, and strategizing for the future!

a photo of a big group of Alphabet Workers Union members on the West Coast wearing their red union tshirts and raising their fists.

a photo of a big group of Alphabet Workers Union members on the East Coast wearing their red union tshirts and raising their fists.

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