Tuesday, September 24, 2019

In Pittsburgh: success in organizing within a Google's contractor

Excellent article in The Guardian, by Julia Carrie-Wong about workers organizing to get a union, with so many similarities with our own story. In fact the vote is taking place today. All our best wishes of success, friends. We can only hope they don't play on you the run away shop strategy :(
That happened when we cornered Microsoft with an NLRB charge about them being a joint employer. Something that was too 'dangerous' for their business model, despite their claims of generosity and acceptance of unionizing, although it basically never took place (yet?) but for us. 
Visiting twitter, I just found out they won! 
They are going to be represented by United Steel Workers.
Congratulations and again all our best wishes. Considering the size of HCL, (140K employees in 44 countries) it will be interesting to see if the unionization drive spreads, including in our region as, of course HCL partners with Microsoft.
More info here about the organizing.

2 comments:

  1. thanks for the well wishes, they worked. HCL is now a Steelworker shop

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