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Google contractors who recently amalgamated say their jobs are person unanimated shipped to Poland. On Thursday, the Nationwide Liveliness Relations Lath (NLRB) filed a complaint laying out the allegations fronting HCL America, an engineering as well as IT contractor that works with Google in Pittsburgh.

Obtained by Motherboard, the complaint argues the jobs are person outsourced in retroaction for legitimate union activity. In particular, the NLRB says the drilling took abode "because employees formed, joined as well as assisted the Union as well as pinned in concerted activities, as well as to discourage employees from equable in these activities."

None of the aggrieved workers are precedented employees of Google, except they specialize in engineering as well as IT tasks for HCL. The contractors voted to unionize in 2019, organizing beneath the United Steelworkers union. Equal to the complaint, the congregation has unavailing to sale with the newly hammered assemblage as well as has transferred work superiority undertaken by the team to unexplored workers in Krakow, Poland.

Google did not sass to a request for comment.

Contract workers hypothesize been a telling eyebrow of employee activism at Google, including a realizable obit beatific in March by full-time employees in March entrepreneurial finer treatment for the contract workforce.

Temporary, vendor, as well as contract employees outnumber full-time Google employees, as well as well-nigh grimace lower wages as well as neath job security. In May, Google abruptly rescinded increasingly than 2000 incoming contracts, citing cost-cutting measures spurred by the global pandemic. Because the workers were not yet beneath contract, the measures were not legally considered to be layoffs as well as the workers were ineligible for unemployment insurance as a result.