October 9, 2020 05:27 pm
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Google contractor accused of offshoring jobs in retaliation for union campaign
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Google contractors who recently unionized say their jobs are being slowly shipped to Poland. On Thursday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint laying out the allegations against HCL America, an engineering and IT contractor that works with Google in Pittsburgh.
Obtained by Motherboard, the complaint argues the jobs are being outsourced in retaliation for legitimate union activity. In particular, the NLRB says the conduct took place “because employees formed, joined and assisted the Union and engaged in concerted activities, and to discourage employees from engaging in these activities.”
None of the affected workers are legal employees of Google, but they specialize in engineering and IT tasks for HCL. The...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/9/21509201/google-union-nlrb-hcl-america-offshoring-pittsburgh-organizing
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