#google #tech contractors in Pittsburgh just voted to unionize
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About 80 tech contractors working for Google in Pittsburgh will join the United Steelworkers union after a majority voted for unionization, in the latest effort by the tech industry’s massive “shadow” workforce to secure improved wages and benefits.
Google uses contractors from a company called HCL Technologies, and last month, HCL tech workers at a Google office in the city announced their plan to unionize. The contractors said at the time that, despite working alongside full Google employees, they’d received only a few of the same benefits.
The workers planned to vote for unionization with the United Steelworkers union, or USW. In an announcement released today, the USW said a majority of the contractors…
