Google Union Helps Bag Pay Hike For Contract Workers, Sees Room For More

On Monday, the Alphabet Workers Union said that thousands of contract employees evaluating the quality of Alphabet Inc’s GOOG GOOGL Google search and advertising won a pay hike that brought workers’ wages up to $15 an hour.
The AWU estimated that up to 5,000 workers received the raise, which resulted in “millions in collective salary increases for workers,” Bloomberg reports.
The pay hike came after AWU staged rallies on both U.S. coasts to highlight labor conditions and petitioned for the benefits Google publicized in its minimum standard of benefits for its extended workforce.
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Michelle Curtis, a Google contractor and member of AWU, said that Google and Appen Ltd APPEF, which employed the workers receiving the raise, could still do better.
The pay hike will likely be effective by the end of 2023.
“It is now time for Appen and Google to ensure every rater can take a sick day and have access to basic health insurance,” Curtis said.
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