The petition was delivered by leaders of the Alphabet Workers Union to Sundar Pichai’s office at Google’s California headquarters.
More than 4,500 Google employees have signed a petition calling for layoff protections, as sweeping workforce cuts continue to hit the tech industry.
The petition was brought to Google’s California headquarters yesterday (16 July) by leaders of the Alphabet Workers Union, with union president Parul Koul delivering it to Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s office.
Koul, a software engineer at the tech giant, reportedly left the petition with a staff member who committed to deliver it to Pichai, while more than 100 Google employees rallied outside. Koul stated that upon delivering the petition, the group was “greeted with closed doors and no response for the most part”.
“We are demanding that Google workers have the conditions and the security to do their best work, where they can actually bring new ideas and innovations to life instead of working in an environment driven by fear, where you might be pit against your colleagues or every day you’re not sure how much longer you will have this job,” said Koul at the demonstration outside Google’s headquarters, according to San Francisco’s ABC7 News.
