Google illegally failed to bargain with a union of YouTube employees, according to a recent decision from the National Labor Relations Board. On Jan. 3, the agency ordered Google to recognize and bargain with the union as a joint employer.
Google owns YouTube, a San Bruno, Calif.-based video sharing service with about 2,800 employees.
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A group of YouTube Music content operation workers voted 41-0 last April to join the Alphabet Workers Union, which was formed three years ago. Google claimed that it did not have enough control over the YouTube workers to be considered a joint employer that must bargain with their union. The NLRB rejected that argument.
Google in a statement said it would ask a federal appeals court to review the NLRB ruling.
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The YouTube workers, based in Texas, were hired via the staffing agency Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.
The Alphabet Workers Union filed a complaint with the NLRB early last year, accusing Alphabet and Cognizant of responding to the union campaign by making threats, transferring work abroad and using new return-to-office rules to try to derail organizing. Cognizant has said the allegations have no merit. That complaint is still pending.
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