{"id":150,"date":"2026-06-05T14:24:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/?p=150"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:24:49","slug":"in-wake-of-meta-layoffs-alphabet-workers-union-cwa-calls-on-tech-workers-to-get-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/in-wake-of-meta-layoffs-alphabet-workers-union-cwa-calls-on-tech-workers-to-get-organized\/","title":{"rendered":"In Wake of Meta Layoffs, Alphabet Workers Union-CWA Calls on Tech Workers to Get Organized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, Meta sent shockwaves through the tech industry, performing a round of mass layoffs that eliminated approximately 8,000 jobs. This move prompted the elected Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA Local 9009) to release&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alphabetworkersunion.org\/press\/alphabet-workers-union-statement-on-meta-layoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a statement<\/a>&nbsp;calling on tech workers to get organized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt might feel like we are powerless in the face of these overwhelming market forces, but as the tech workers who power these companies, we are the people best positioned to do something about it,\u201d reads the statement. \u201cThe products generating massive profits for companies like Meta and Google don\u2019t exist without our labor. That\u2019s why we say to Googlers and tech workers across the industry: Don\u2019t mourn, organize!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta\u2019s mass layoffs occurred during Google I\/O, a flashy annual event during which Alphabet unveils new products. At the Google I\/O Demo Day for employees in Mountain View, Calif., AWU-CWA members armed with clipboards walked the lines of workers waiting to get into the event, educating coworkers about the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alphabetworkersunion.org\/job-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Googlers for Job Security<\/a>&nbsp;campaign demands and gathering new petition signatures. As AWU-CWA member Ezra Wu said, \u201cWe need security to be creative, and creativity is what powers all the cool stuff that happens at I\/O.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To stay up to date on AWU-CWA\u2019s Googlers for Job Security campaign and future calls to action, follow them on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alphabetworkers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlphabetWorkers\">X<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlphabetWorkers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/alphabetworkersunion.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bluesky<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/alphabet-workers-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Meta sent shockwaves through the tech industry, performing a round of mass layoffs that eliminated approximately 8,000 jobs. This move prompted the elected Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA Local 9009) to release&nbsp;a statement&nbsp;calling on tech workers to get organized. \u201cIt might feel like we are powerless in the face of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"external_permalink":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cwa"],"external_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}