A group of contractors working on Google products have won a second historic pay raise and will now be paid the company’s minimum standard wage of $15 an hour, according to a Monday announcement by the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA.
This victory comes after the union delivered a petition demanding that the contract workers be included in Google’s company-wide U.S. Wages and Benefits Standards to the company’s Mountain View, CA headquarters on Feb. 1. Over 1,000 Alphabet workers signed it.
Google released its Wages and Benefits Standards in 2019, with an expected compliance date of Jan. 1, 2020. “All members of Google’s provisioned extended workforce, working in the United States, should be paid $15/hour or more,” it states. It also mandates that, although independent contractors and workers under a collective bargaining agreement are excluded from company benefits, that “the wages portion of this policy must be followed without adjustment.”
“We wanted to bring to your attention that some of our members (and raters more broadly) are presently excluded from Google’s stated values and extended workforce standards,” the petition reads. “Many are presently being paid poverty wages without any healthcare, family leave, or PTO benefits. We’re all aware that Alphabet’s main source of revenue and much of its future remains Search. We believe that the integrity and quality of Search ultimately depends on the unseen labor of these workers.”
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