Austin City Council members are proposing a new resolution to support small businesses in the city.
The concerns come after YouTube Music workers discovered they were laid off during an Austin City Council meeting earlier this year.The workers, who were employed through Cognizant, became a union through the Alphabet Workers Union and went on strike after citing unfair working conditions.before the council to support their cause toward bringing their employers to the negotiating table with their union.
Now 46 House Democrats are urging the National Labor Relations Board to investigate if the unionizing workers had their rights violated."Rich and powerful corporations like Google are seeing workers across the country rise up, organize, and win," Casar said. “The NLRB should quickly and thoroughly investigate if the rights of these workers, like the YouTube Music workers in my district, were violated. Union organizing and collective bargaining should be a right — not a fight.
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