In an email obtained by Motherboard, Google tells YouTube Music workers it will "not be participating in collective bargaining."
  • moriarty@lemm.eeEnglish
    52·
    2 years ago

    A Cognizant spokesperson told Motherboard in an email, “We have received the Alphabet Workers Union’s request for a Cognizant bargaining representative. The request put forward was for both Cognizant and Google to bargain. While we respect our associates’ rights to unionize, we firmly believe Cognizant is the sole employer of our associates. While the joint employer ruling remains unresolved, we cannot bargain at this time.”

    “Google refuses to just admit that they are our employer, and then Cognizant is just using Google’s legal appeals as a scapegoat,” Marschner said. “That, honestly, is exactly why we filed for joint employer status in the first place. We knew that if we just tried to engage in collective bargaining with Cognizant, that’s exactly what they would do.”

    wut

    • Yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
      1613·
      2 years ago

      Google has a shell company, Cognizant, that hires and subcontracts people to Google. When the workers unionize, they’re unionizing against cognizant, not Google. The workers are trying to say otherwise, will more than likely need a court case to sort it out.

      • 0110010001100010@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        2 years ago

        Cognizant is very much NOT a Google shell company, they are a third-party contractor with business in healthcare, tech, energy, insurance, education, etc.

        • Yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
          41·
          2 years ago

          My bad, I was thinking of Amazon and their delivery “companies”

      • seiryth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

        This isn’t right. Cognizant are a well known systems integrator. In Australia alone recently they bought out some of the best local SIs just to get presence - contino and Servian, with a rumoured third (versent) on the way…

        Theyre a body shop looking to grow their born in the cloud generstion of engineers.