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A group of Alphabet contract workers are launching a unionization campaign, saying they need a greater voice at the company that has tasked them with work on its most high-profile products, including training generative AI answers in Google’s search engine and chatbot.
The workers, who are employed via the vendor Accenture, are seeking to negotiate directly with Alphabet, which they argue is legally also their boss.
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