Google’s refusal to bargain with unionized YouTube Music workers is illegal, a Wednesday ruling from the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found. After a group of Texas-based contract workers for YouTube Music unanimously voted last April to join the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), Google refused to bargain over return to office complaints, a move the NLRB deemed illegal. Google, which owns YouTube, claims it is not legally the employer of contract workers, but the NLRB says otherwise. As such, Google must bargain with their representing union, a decision Google says it will appeal in federal court. Google’s adamance that it is not the employer of its contract workers is a stance it has taken before without success.

Source: CNN January 05, 2024 21:23 UTC