On 24 September 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 80 employees at the IT services company HCL voted by a 61% majority to join the United Steelworkers Union and have the union represent their interests. The IT services provision HCL staff who work on a daily basis alongside staff at the internet giant Google, are now joining forces with the 850,000 workers who are already USW members. They will organize under the Pittsburgh Association of Tech Professionals (PATP) that supports Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania workers in high-tech fields. This move to unionize remains an exception in the Tech sector, which although certainly not a stranger to mobilization, seldom sees unionization votes actually succeed.
Repeated calls by Tech services provision staff. Tech companies employ a lot of sub-contractor and services providers. These contract workers work alongside direct employees on a daily basis, yet they do not benefit from the same advantages. These differences in treatment formed the kernel of some of the demands expressed during Google employee and services provider meetings in November 2018 in California (c.f. article No. 10881), and in April 2019 across several large towns and cities across t
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