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Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico (www.cnbc.com)

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Google is laying off more employees and hiring for their roles outside of the U.S.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm an infrastructure engineer working at a government contractor and I'm in a union with OPEIU 1010, the tech workers' local. Others are unionizing independently, with CWA, etc.. It's still early days for the tech industry but there are examples. We're really not that different from other industries with a larger union presence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sure yeah, but like, I work remote and will always work remote (I live in a city with a pretty mediocre tech scene). On top of that, I work in a non-mainstream programming language (Haskell). So it's hard to envision what I could actually do.

I'm very pro-union btw, it just seems like there are certain things that can sometimes make it more difficult to make happen