Google’s Dirty Tactics: YouTube Music Workers Won’t be Muted
- Rania Khalek
- Friday 8 Mar 24
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Last week, Google laid off its entire unionized YouTube Music team of workers while they were testifying before the Austin City Council on a resolution calling for Google to bargain with them in good faith. Google has publicly refused to negotiate with YouTube Music workers since they unanimously voted in favor of unionizing and joining the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA in April 2023.
Sam Regan, a YouTube Music worker and a worker-organizer at AWU-CWA, discusses the layoffs and how they won’t stop workers across Google and Alphabet from continuing to fight back against Google’s illegal union-busting behavior.

Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. . Her journalism has appeared at The Grayzone, Jacobin, The Nation, The Intercept, FAIR, Vice, The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera and more. .
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