Alphabet, the parent company of Google and a number of other companies, faces a number of external challenges during this period, especially with the great repercussions of the Coronavirus pandemic that caused great losses to the company, but internal challenges are not everything, as Google also faces internal challenges that are no less important
It is related to the direction of a number of senior Google employees to establish a union within the company, which is the union that bears the name "Alphabet Workers Union" and which includes in its ranks about 226 employees, most of them senior engineers within Alphabet, and this comes despite the fact that the company I have always warned employees of the consequences of establishing a union, but the employees insisted on their position, especially since they fought this new project for some time in complete secrecy
This does not concern Alphabet alone, because Alphabet Workers Union is the first union gathering of employees in a technology company in the world of technology, and this indicates that a number of employees of technology companies may follow the same approach in the future, especially if the new experiment succeeds The number of Alphabet Corporation employees in all its branches, including Google, is more than 26000 employees in the United States of America and around the world
"We want Alphabet to be a company where workers have a say in the decisions that affect us and the communities in which we live," the Alphabet Employees Union said in a statement