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#unionisation

The engineer distributed flyers around Google DeepMind's London offices, which read Google provides military AI to forces committing genocide and asking colleagues: Is your paycheck worth this? He also emailed colleagues about Google's 2025 decision to drop a promise not to pursue weapons that harm people and surveillance violating international norms and urged them to unionise. According to the claim filed with the UK's employment tribunal, the worker alleges that Google discriminated against his belief that no one should be complicit in war crimes and that by emailing and leafleting colleagues he was acting as a whistleblower.

In 2011, Joey La Neve DeFrancesco had been working in room service at a luxury hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, for nearly four years, whisking delicacies on demand to guests' rooms, when he reached breaking point. He was paid a measly $5.50 (4) an hour, made to work punishingly long shifts and, to top it off, had managers taking a cut of his hard-earned tips. The poor treatment ratcheted up after DeFrancesco and colleagues tried to unionise workers at the hotel.