We call on our coworkers to join our Googlers for Job Security campaign, fighting for guaranteed severance, buyouts before layoffs, no GRAD quotas, and severance as leave: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/job-security

While we celebrate the fact that our organizing is working, with our demand to offer voluntary buyouts before mandatory layoffs becoming a new company standard, we know that the fight is far from over.

This week, our employer has been prominent in the headlines as Alphabet stock reached a record high. We, the workers who generate those profits, deserve to feel secure in our employment.

Our coworkers on visas worry about the potential impact on permanent resident applications and the PERM process. But what the VEPs and the Googlers for Job Security campaign demonstrate is that when we take action together, things can change.

The truth is that no Googler wants to find out that their product area is being targeted for cuts. Even when offered a VEP over a mandatory layoff, the move brings fear that involuntary layoffs could follow.

The sustained organizing of Googlers for Job Security over the past year has made it possible for nearly 70,000 Googlers to be granted the option to take a voluntary exit package instead of hundreds of layoffs.

Hi there, we have a very active Bay Area chapter! Feel free to reach out to bay-area@alphabetworkersunion.org

Read the full statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...

Recent rounds of layoffs have created an atmosphere of fear in tech, and that's why AWU launched the Googlers For Job Security campaign. We're fighting for guaranteed severance, no GRAD quotas, buyouts before layoffs, and severance as leave!

Join us: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/campaigns/jo...

Check out a short clip from AWU member Ritchie Thai's speech in Seattle last week - and visit kickstarterunited.org/#what-you-can-do for ways to support our union family as they fight for the contract they deserve!

Have you been impacted by these layoffs?

Reach out to organizing@alphabetworkersunion.org

Together, we can build the power to win job security for all of us. We call on all Googlers who agree with these demands to join our campaign and sign our petition at go.awu.fyi/job-security...

Moments like these are exactly why AWU members have been publicly organizing as Googlers for Job Security since January. Over 2,000 of us have already committed to the fight for severance as leave, voluntary layoffs, guaranteed severance, and no GRAD quotas.