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YouTube is forcing contract workers to return to office or face termination, and offshoring work, in attempt to stop unionization

“Suddenly when we say, ‘Hey, we’re going to unionize,’ it’s like, ‘Hey, let’s get back to office,’” said YouTube worker Neil Gossell, an activist with the union campaign. “So the timing on that seems really suspect.” The complaint also alleges that a supervisor made implied anti-union threats and that management has been transferring work to offices in other places — including India — in an attempt “to chill the union organizing effort” by the Texas staff. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/youtube-uses-return-to-office-push-to-undercut-union-group-says


“Suddenly when we say, ‘Hey, we’re going to unionize,’ it’s like, ‘Hey, let’s get back to office,’” said YouTube worker Neil Gossell, an activist with the union campaign. “So the timing on that seems really suspect.”

The complaint also alleges that a supervisor made implied anti-union threats and that management has been transferring work to offices in other places — including India — in an attempt “to chill the union organizing effort” by the Texas staff.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/youtube-uses-return-to-office-push-to-undercut-union-group-says

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