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Two Google software engineers announced they would form a union open to all employees of parent company Alphabet.
"For far too long, thousands of us at Google — and other subsidiaries of Alphabet, Google’s parent company — have had our workplace concerns dismissed by executives," engineers Parul Koul and Chewy Shaw wrote. "Our bosses ... have developed artificial intelligence technology for use by the Department of Defense and profited from ads by a hate group. They have failed to make the changes necessary to meaningfully address our retention issues with people of color."
More than 200 Alphabet employees have signed union cards with the Communications Workers of America.
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