Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google's refusal to negotiate with the union.

YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions::Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google’s refusal to negotiate with the union.

  • SuperIce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Cognizant, a professional services company that Alphabet contracted the YouTube Music team through, said in a statement that the workers were let go after their contract ended at its intended date, according to KXAN in Austin.

    A spokesperson for Google told Business Insider that Cognizant is responsible for ending the workers’ employment, not Google.

    “Contracts with our suppliers across the company routinely end on their natural expiry date, which was agreed to with Cognizant,” the company said in a statement.

    Not sure how much of the fault is from Google’s side here since the employees contracted from another company.

    • net00@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      If the team is finding out that their job ends on the same day, it’s totally Google’s doing, and not the vendor company.

      Google loves cheap, disposable workers, that why half of their workers are contractors.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I am not defending Google here, but Cognizant is trash. I run a firm of specialist and a bulk of our work is cleaning up after outfits like Cognizant , Infosys, etc.

      All that said, firing a group of 43 workers that chose to unionize during an Austin City Council meeting as it was being live streamed is all sorts of spicy. Google and Cognizant fucked up.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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        8 months ago

        How’s that work, is there lots of hair pulling? Or are you able to charge an arm and a leg and set your timelines because the clients don’t have much of a choice?