The Alphabet Workers Union calls on tech workers everywhere to get organized and resist Trump’s war on workers in 2025.

The Alphabet Workers Union was formed for this moment. Our direct-join organizing model is not reliant on a friendly federal government for us to build power at work. All Google workers and Alphabet contractors can join our union directly and get involved in the fight today. Together we are building unshakeable power at our company that cannot be disrupted by anti-worker presidents, power-hungry Silicon Valley oligarchs, or Big Tech monopolists. We are charging ahead into 2025 with a bold vision of organizing for job security in our workplaces and advocating publicly for equity and respect for workers everywhere.

Big Tech is deeply complicit in Donald Trump’s return to power. Silicon Valley’s richest men unapologetically went for Trump in this election, led by Elon Musk, who spent hundreds of millions to install an administration that will further enrich himself and immiserate nonunion Tesla workers. Behind him were many others, however, who might have harbored reactionary politics in the past, but this time gave the green light to go full MAGA: Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Marc Andreesen, just to name a few of the richest and most odious.

Alphabet, along with the other biggest tech companies, has not covered itself in glory. Our CEO Sundar Pichai apparently shared a friendly call with Trump recently where he complimented a viral campaign stop at McDonald’s (the CEOs of Apple and Amazon have also cozied up to Trump, according to reporting). In a memo just before the election, Sundar chided employees to “remember the role we play.” Meanwhile, Alphabet has illegally, repeatedly issued ‘gag orders’ to its own workers, over which our union has filed Unfair Labor Practice charges.  

The MAGA tech titans and corporate platforms will now get their wish. The first Trump presidential term was unrelentingly hostile to worker power. A second term will unleash a more comprehensive war on workers’ rights. At Trump’s direction the federal agency entrusted with protecting worker power, the NLRB, will turn to depleting it. Already we have seen big companies, Amazon included, attack the very foundations of American labor law in the courts. There’s no telling, with four more years of Trump Supreme Court appointees, where that will end.

The Alphabet Workers Union calls on all tech workers to join us, at Alphabet and elsewhere: get organized and fight back!

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