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It'd have to be private sector Unions hopefully. Because gutting and destroying most government Public Sector Unions like the AFSCME, SEIU, AFGE and AFT would be an overall public good for the country.

Yeah I get that. But Right to Work, as is my understanding, is basically at-will employment (ie no 'ism') which most states have but the addition that you don't have to join a Union to work somewhere. But can a company in the state of Texas fire you for attempting to organize a Union which is...

Huh I wonder what the Labor Laws are in regard to this. I assume Alphabet has a pretty well paid and professional legal team to feel confident in pulling off this stunt, or maybe they feel insulated enough to pull this off regardless of any legal quibbles that might arise out of this. If...

A lawsuit filed in US District Court contends that Google has been 'wiretapping' tax return websites like HR Block, TaxAct and TaxSlayer etc with analytic code that gathered personal data from people who accessed those websites for tax preparation purposes. There's been an uptick of litigation...

Alphabet, the parent company of Google has announced over 5% of Alphabet's Workforce is facing layoffs, around 12,000 employees globally. https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/20/google-parent-alphabet-cuts-6-of-its-workforce-impacting-12000-people/ This includes a large portion of its Area 120...

About twenty three hundred, or supposedly about 90% of the 'cafeteria' workers that serve Google Employees their meals, including at their Headquarters, have quietly unionized in part due to complaints of being overworked and underpaid. Google contracts their food service minions through...

Alphabet is forming a new company that will use AI to design new drugs. https://interestingengineering.com/alphabet-launched-company-using-ai-to-design-new-drugs

Roku still has not been able to reach a distribution agreement with Google and their YouTubeTV app. https://www.roku.com/blog/update-on-youtube-tv

Google cancels yet another service after about a year of operations. This time it's Plex, their intended financial service and mobile banking app. https://www.americanbanker.com/news/google-ends-high-profile-experiment-in-embedded-finance

Google is paying Apple billions of dollars to protect the consumers from using... Bing? https://www.ped30.com/2021/08/25/apple-google-payments-15b/

France's antitrust watchdog has now slapped Google with a 500 million Euro fine over its failure to comply with regulators in regards to their conduct when negotiating with the countries news publishers in a row over copyrights. Google has been given two months to come up with proposals on how...

The Google Play Store removed several apps, some with millions of downloads, for stealing users Facebook passwords and related information. Unlike many apps of this nature, these apps worked as advertised, ranging from offering services such as cleaning junk files from your Android, to...

Google reached a $270 million dollar settlement in a French Antitrust case over Google's alleged abuse as the market leader in digital advertising. They also extracted some commitments from Google though they are only binding in France...

Queer and Black AI groups are refusing funding from Google over ongoing issues of diversity and protections for whistleblowers. https://www.wired.com/story/black-queer-ai-groups-spurn-google-funding/

Roku apparently fulfilled its warning. https://nypost.com/2021/04/30/youtube-tv-pulled-from-roku-amid-spat-with-google/ The YouTube TV app is no longer available in the Roku channel store for new subscribers though existing subscribers using a Roku TV or device can still access the YouTube TV...

Google is apparently attempting to strong arm Roku into accepting its anticompetitve suggestions. https://www.axios.com/roku-google-youtube-tv-dispute-525316c1-4d66-44e3-a96a-40db7b10e05b.html I got the email as well being a Roku User. Before we get started, some of the demands seem...

To start us off with the Google/Alphabet news that may not be worth its own thread itself... Details of court filings that are part of an ongoing anti-trust case against Google in the Texas Courts were apparently incompletely redacted before release and subsequently acquired by the Wall Street...