Youtube Music workers get fired while asking Austin City Council for Google negotiation resolution
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- Опубликовано: 29 фев 2024
- As workers urged City Council to pass a resolution asking Google to negotiate with RUclips Music employees, they were told their contract was over.
The move came after the group was hopeful that Austin City Council might be able to help urge their tech giant employers to come to the bargaining table and negotiate. But a year of tension that included a strike, a unionization vote, a return-to-office and National Labor Relations Board disputes, all came to a head when tech staffing agency Cognizant held a meeting in their Austin office informing dozens of workers that their employment contract had ended.
"I'm sorry, your time has expired"... That could not have been timed better if they tried....
At least we know they will land on their feet in this roaring economy they keep telling us about.
🤣🤣🤣
Yes and remember they have that cis white privilege to fall back on (although not the girl or whatever she identifies as at the moment)
I bet they'll still vote for Biden
@@SilverImmortal3633
The only option is to vote for him. Conservatives would have no mercy for unions
@@SilverImmortal3633tf do you even mean when saying that?
YT Employee: "We've already won this fight."
Google: "Hold my beer."
Obviously, not a Bud Light?
@dennisburdick682 perhaps or some trans beer out there.😂
@@enigma0876bud light is for Mexican immigrants.
@@nitrosrizko9803Yeah im mexican and i dont know why people on the right think 🌈 folks drink bud light. Rainbow folks only drink hard lemonades and other flavored drinks. 🤦
Butt Light
Hey Gemini, generate a picture of a Google Music employee.
Gemini: 🙍🏾♂️🇮🇳
@@sukapow A chef's kiss worthy response.
@@hanashi5727 Gemini can't do 🙍🏻♂️ next best thing is 🙍🏾♂️since it was definitely was programmed by them
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂 But unfortunately these aren't Google or even Alphabet employees.
Ok, which city council employee came in hot with the little "ding?" The comedic timing...
🥴🥴🥴😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
It’s a timer but still funny
Yo $19 an hour. The new hire no degree laborer on a construction site makes more. That’s horrible
Are you kidding me, I know 16 year olds in highschool that make $20/hr
That‘s normal: construction workers do matter. Woke activists do not.
Ouch 🤕 she sounded on the verge of tears.
I mean...she got fired, so...pretty fair reaction
That bell went off at the most awkward moment 😭
The one in their head? The one that said....maybe this isn't a good idea. 😂
"You're fired!" Donald Trump
Sublime comedy !
Absolutely crushing? 🥴🥴🥴😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Your time is up, your time is done.
I geneuinely can't comprehend how people are happy about this...yes, I would be the first person to say these people are annoying as hell- they would likely drive me insane and I would find them deeply intolerable
But consider that you're rooting for a multibillion dollar corporation that sells your data for fun and would sooner crush you under it's heel for a dollar against a bunch of low income workers. It doesn't matter that theyre unlikable- it matters that the more success companies have in crushing attempts to organize, the more everyone who's not on their fishing boat is at risk. I hope you like capitalism being crushed by a lack of free market competition just as much as you like "owning the libs"
Unionization is for chumps.
@@thebigragu9952 if you worked for a small employer or business, sure. If you work for a corporation, good luck getting them to care by yourself
Nah fr. How can these people be cheering for the billion dollar corporation lmao? Weridos.
Wow. $19 bucks...fast food workers are making that now.
Something tells me that "RUclips content moderation" is very similar in skill level to "fast food worker". 😏
@@larmondoflairallen4705 Aren't they more than just moderators, though?
@@moreofawave They're fired is what they are. :)
@@liteney Wow. So giddy over people losing their jobs for wanting a living wage. You're a dick.
@@larmondoflairallen4705fast food workers arent required to have a bachelors degree and 3 years in the field, that tells me it requires significantly more skill and they're probably not just content moderators.
That little "ding" at the end was pure comedy gold! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
3:48 “… and we have already won.”
Google: No you ain’t.
"Google refuses to acknowledge us as there employees" because your fired 😂😂😂
Because you're not their employee. They're their vendor's employees. And they still work for Cognizant. I wonder if any of Cognizant's clients will touch this group now.
@@JBJB992 land of the free... unless ur a worker
@@jorgesaopedro lol, such a whiny response....you are free not to work there, free to apply somewhere else, free to show up or not for the interview, free to be a welfare bum or buy a lotto ticket or work at McD or free to put on a tie to interview.
@@JBJB992 how kind of freedom is that when u need ur salary to survive, so u have to get under the will of employers? Freedom of speach? That's not freedom when u have no choice but obey to those who have the power... i don't want u to understand, u can't, u need to live in a free country to do that.
@@JBJB992 and u believe in all the lies u want, but they were working AT google, u may say they were working FOR Cognizant's, but working AT google... and the worst, i bet ur a worker also... i'm so glad i live on Europe.
When you ask about unions, and your boss finds out.
They fought the big boss instead of the lil boss, aka Cognizant. Big big fired lil boss. Employees got caught lackin.
laid us all off, effective immediately.....DING!
"we're a small team but we're very mighty."
...mighty broke!
LOL
Starting to wonder if I should really invest my time and money on the GCP Associate Certified Engineer exam...OR...is this a sign of things to come? Afraid of associating my hard-earned skills and knowledge with a company that is sinking ship...thoughts?
The company isn't a sinking ship. It's still one of the most sought after employers with great pay and benefits. That said, I don't know what this exam is that you reference. If you're going to get hired into an engineering role at Google, you've attended a top notch school and done internships at top tech companies. You have amazing coding skills. Same with many roles at top tech companies. Certifications or the like aren't really going to matter.
Become your own employer. The world needs electricians, welders and plumbers, too.
@stuffykong yeah but did you see the one about them screwing up AI? I hear they're asking the CEO to step down
Learn to weld
"We just keep winning." Immediately fired.
"Your time is up." Yeah, in more ways than one.
This meeting ended so fast as they got fired.
So are they hiring?
Obviously, only real employees who produce quality work!?
@@dennisburdick682lmao😂
You tube is taking off all the videos doing a story on this .Lyor Cohen os no where to be found . I bet it was his idea to end the contract and fire them .
Gotta love lefty media 😂😂😂
People act like this is funny, but, as much as they were naive, this is a pretty evil action by google.
Once again progs prove that they only virture signal about workers, but really just love money
@@matthewmosier8439not at all. They wanted something they were not entitled to. That’s how contract jobs work.
@@matthewmosier8439Cognizant didn't fulfill their end of the deal and the contract was not renewed. Simple
@@neauxmad1048 I understand the fact that the corp. was within its rights to manipulate this event into what it became.
My point is that the way that corp. TALKS and the way it ACTS are classic prog-ism in that it basically talks the opposite of the way it acts
If nobody worked there they would have to change their approach.
Pretty sure the positions are already filled.
nobody does work there. They were all let go🤣🤣
It's just bots and culture war activists.
I use RUclips for multiple hours everyday....and I had no idea that YT music existed! I guess they weren't very good at their job...😂
I mean, I highly doubt they were responsible for any element of PR
Plus, quality definitely isn't a requirement for RUclips to promote something, their AI had to be pulled from the market within a day
I don't even use RUclips music wouldn't be surprised if it shutdown
Many newer phones give choice of: Video Player or YTMusic when you choose a file from your phone to play (MP3, MP4). Beneath the two choices, after making your choice, there is usually a "just once" or "always" choice. It's definitely pre-loaded.
Go work for UPS, they pay $49 an hour with full benefits..
Aren't they laying off, too?
@@dennisburdick682 Yep, they are laying off the woke workers, 12,000. More money for me.
@@dennisburdick682I don't get any joy from watching these young people figure out that the side they were told was looking out for them is actually just destroying the economy while blaming it on the other guys
They are laying off the useless managrment jobs. Every company is cleaning out the useless HR crap.
"Ding!"
Time's up.
Probably one of the stupidest things I've seen happen. They stood up in public to badmouth their contractor. What did they think would happen? They worked for an outsise agency and Google couldn't be bothered with the hassle so terminated their agreement with Cognisant.
1000's of agencies out there to fill the void. Well done, you played yourselves. 😂😂😂
It's USA were people have no rights at all, what to expect!!!
@@jorgesaopedroand you believe that other countries have rights? 😂😂 off you go to your fantasy land.
Someone feel free to correct me if any of this isn't factual. But from what I read, it sounds like they were not actually laid off, at least not yet. They were benched by the company they actually work for (Cognizant). They get to do next to nothing for 7 weeks while waiting on a new assignment that may or may not come. At that point they might be laid off. They were never FT Google employees, which apparently bothered them a great deal. But Google never hired them individually and has no real responsibility for their individual employment.
False, they in fact DID got dumped!
@@ryanbarthold1652no facts...no truth
we love seeing lefty’s fail. Remember people, gOoGlE iS a PriVaTe CoMpAnY, AnD ThEy CaN Do WhAt ThEy WaNt😂😂😂
"YOU'RE FIRED!!!"
Donald J. Trump
😂
Indeed they were employed by Cognizant, not Google, as contract workers and not full-time employees. Ultimately, they unionized for the purpose of bring recognized as full employees (again, they're contractors, not FTE) and to incur the same pay and benefits offered to the full-timers (as a contractor, you sign in total acknowledgement of your pay and benefits, and understand you're paid through the agency, not the company you're provided to).
This brings Cognizant to an awkward position, because now Google have grounds to terminate Cognizant's contract wholecloth.
Oh no... how terrible.
Learn to weld!
Welding is a very profitable job.
@@denisebradley8151 And they'll never learn how to do it. That's the joke.
They still live at home with mom and dad. Asking them to do a real job. Yea! I don't see that happening
until they code the robot that replaces you...
Im sure it will be AI coding that robot. Not these fools
My sides hurt so bad right now. This is priceless.
I think the ringing of the chime, at the end of their time, is what makes it kinda perfect.
Nah this is just depressing
?
Can't imagine meat riding Google
I like all the talk about how they were “winning.” Priceless.
So glad I use YTvanced and such.
A man of culture I see.
Huh
That is horrifying
On strike because of RTO? And in other countries people are fighting for safe working conditions… #firstworldproblems
Drawing and playing music arent high paying careers typically
I propose a rule that you get an extra ten seconds to process the news in case you get laid off in the middle of your speech.
That ding was just perfect timing. It has to be planned lol
This was amazing!
Canceled my youtube premium. Done /w Google.
LOL at you. They keep offering me premium free month and I keep rejecting.
Google and FB getting sued into shutdown is my fantasy dream.
@Foxstab why lol? I haven't seen an Ad in years, it was worth the price.
@@kelton5020 just use an adblocker lol
hahahahahaha, sure bud, sure. They will miss you. sure..
@ph4nt0m22 thanks...that really means a lot to me. I'm going to miss you man.
Well, that brought a tear to my eye.
Why?? That was Awesome
@@scottbrown7497 Hope you and those close to you get laid off soon.
@@scottbrown7497???
Of joy??? Surely
@@midnightsun24c7we love seeing lefty’s fail. Remember people, gOoGlE iS a PriVaTe CoMpAnY, AnD ThEy CaN Do WhAt ThEy WaNt😂😂😂
What does "RUclips Music" even do that requires workers? I see they automatically publish the same stuff under "Artist - Topic" that is on other download platforms. There are no comments, no curation.
RUclips music. BS. Get Spotify of you want music.
Ouch....
Being able to blow your own trumpet does not make you valuable, unless your boss is a fan of trumpets
tbh unions are the worst thing that can happen
paying the union per month for them to not do anything for you is the worst thing ever
No need to follow up on it now.
damn - speechless
Welp. That’s that.
😢I have no words . 😡
Trump does. "YOU'RE FIRED!!"
😂
🥴🥴🥴😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 Trump in 2024.
I do. #TeeHee.
@@William1987GTA1No, as misguided as these young people's efforts may have been, this was evil because it came from a company that claims to stand for "workers".
You and I know that the company is terrible, but these poor young people didn't.
They probably went home and second-guessed all the lies they were told in college
@@matthewmosier8439 So what's your point? Yes the company is Left wing propaganda.....yes these millennials got duped, yes it's a hard lesson learned, but ya know what?? We all have lessons to learn. For Christ's sake......I voted for Obama!
'we wont stop fighting and wont stop winning'
How's that going?
"I chose this place to work, and they won't change their wage policies to make me happy!"
I'm sure they rode the short bus to their college classes?
Good news you no longer need to fight as you are not an employee
America: We the people...who are rich...dictate to you...the commoners. The soulless elitism is appalling.
I waited for The Office's opening after the ding. I'm disappointed!
Meanwhile minimum wage in Texas is $7.25
"Just 19 dollars an hour"
1:10 Me and my co-workers. Yes your worth only 19 dollars pre hour. Make sure you put yourself first. It's my co-workers and I. Bachelor's degree?
Laid off ≠ fired.
For anyone confused, they're not Google employees. They're contracted for work by a third party. You can't unionize a company you aren't directly employed by.
Yes, they are.
That was already established a year ago by the NLRB.
Google appealed their ruling, but the NLRB upheld it.
For the time being atleast, they are legally considered to be employed by Google and entitled to the same peotection as any other employee.
Rare large faceless corporation W
Find out, and **** around
So let me get this straight, you are technically a third-party vendor contracted by Google. So your company Cognizant, was hired for a service and you in turn were hired to do a job and then tried to sue the people who were paying your company for a service, not your actual company Cognizant. So then your work contract with Conizant ended and thats Google's fault how?
My guess you are the same group of people that were saying "Learn to code" a few years ago. No one owes you anything.
You said everything that needed to be said... 👍
Very well put
Bravo!
Yes we do owe them . . . . a pink slip.
Correct .... they are re-turds .. go woke go broke LOL
Learn to mine coal.
how is the US even real?
That’s awesome
remember, you can vote
Trump in 2024.
Monopoly... It's more than a Board Game.
So, some interesting info came out about this after it happened, but these people weren't actually 'employees' of RUclips or Google. They believed they were, sure, but belief doesn't always equate truth. Rather, they were employed by a contractor named Cognizant. They were what is known as "contingent workers". Meaning their employment is contingent on the contract between Google/RUclips and Cognizant. Because jobs like this are typically short term (lasting only till the contract ends) employees like this are paid well above the market average for the type of job they have when compared with in house (directly employed) workers. The group here weren't 'fired' as is presented here, as they remain employed through Cognizant. Rather, RUclips/Google ended the contract that they were operating under. That's something that every contingent worker knows can happen, as the way these contracts are written, both companies are allowed to end the contracts at any time, for any or no reason at all.
1:10 "The NLRB has ruled on two occasions that they are joint employers of me and my coworkers and that they must bargain with us"
No one else notices she slips and says former employee at the start?
No. It wasn't employee vut member of the Alphabet Workers Union(I think that's what is called)
And that's how its done now a days. Ecpose, stand up or complain... Fired we live in a greedy toxic world
Remember people, gOoGlE iS a PriVaTe CoMpAnY, AnD ThEy CaN Do WhAt ThEy WaNt😂😂😂
Why should they be treated any different than any contracted employee?
@@Platerpus7 My point was the upper middle class and middle rich class about to pay. Staying silent, excusing behavior or claiming it doesn't effect me... While lower working class does the exposing.. It's creeping up the ladder 🪜. When homelessness, loss of businesses to the richer stay silent, I can't wait to hear their cries.
@@Platerpus7their contract with google has been going on for years with google continually renewing it. That’s why they are doing this. They basically have been google employees without being officially employed by google. (I think)
These people don’t bring much to the company, hence the reason it was so easy to let them go in the first place. If they needed them, they would’ve negotiated. Standard logic.
Google had to have hacked the city council to have the bell go off with such perfect timing. 😂
These people are contractors not full time employees
DAMN Shame😢
No it's not. Workers that complain deserve to be laid-off and blacklisted.
Spoken like a douchey manager or someone who has never had to work for anything in his life@@dennisburdick682
@@dennisburdick682Ragebait.
This video feeds my soul.
This is why 'the people' should be more responsible for not supporting monopolizing companies.
Being employed by a subcontractor and complaining about your pay and status to the company that subcontracted your employer makes no sense whatsoever.
They are special people with the backing of the U.S. fascist government.
The whole point of sub contracting is to loophole all this shit. If they had no loopholes they would just move the work to another fucked up country that allows exploitation.
Lol
Aren’t they doing this bc their contract has been getting renewed and renewed by google for a while
@@dwork9451they should just learn to code .
Google: "don't be evil"
Also Google: "let's just fire everyone and become military industrial contractor with a skeleton crew that uses AI"
Yep.
I find that everyone that uses the term "military industrial" in online forums also tend to vote straight republican or straight democrat every election even if the ones they are voting for, are neo-cons or neo-libs, that greatly benefit from those contractors. If you voted for Chuck Schumer or Diane Feinstein because you were voting a straight ticket against Trump or if you voted for Mitch McConnell or Dan Crenshaw because you were voting a straight ticket against Biden, you are PART OF THE PROBLEM.
also google: changed the motto once the company got big lol
They are not google employees, they are hired by cognizant, therefore they are cognizant employees.
No idea what that has to do with this. Getting a music degree to work for a tech company for almost minimum wage. Tell me you suck at music without telling me you suck at music.
They were not "laid off". Their contracts, which they ALL signed and knew the terms of, came to an end.
No, they're contract didn't came to an end. They're got laid off.
That's not how contract jobs works. They're gave them a date to start and a deadline. After the deadline is done, they're do a valuation on the person work. If Google loves that employee from that contract company. They can recruit them and gave them a full time offer.
Google just terminated the contract between cognizant. They're contract was still going until Google terminated contract.
Google didn't like something about cognizant business. It's hard to get a contract with a company specially from Google.
Terminate one employee is no problem usually bad performance but terminate a group of people is strange and a problem that's what we just saw on live.
They're just human beings trying to survive in this world.
Google is a messed up company.
Exactly, everyone wants to play victim.
@@sukapow cry harder. LEARN TO CODE 😂😂😂Remember, Google is a private company, and they can do what they want
Remember when Democrats defended Google? They said “google is a private company, and they can do what they want”. Also Democrats, nOt LikE tHaT 😂😂😂
@@sukapow I worked with contractors all my life. If it states in the contract that the contractor is not fulfilling their duties (which looks that way) they can terminate the contract with that company at any time and do another bidding. But the information that im seeing online is that their contract expired anyways.
A school leaver should not be earning more thsn someone on that job for years. School isnt experience. Experience equals money
Stay classy google...
They haven't been classy since they joined with the ObamaWhite house about 10- 15 years ago
That’s the world of business. They are no different than any contracted employee.
That's the world of AMERICAN business.
@@Kierkegaard83 Do you need a safe space? In Europe they would not even have been hired. We don‘t like woke activists over here…
It's bullshit that people think that fast food workers deserve to be paid more than these guys do
Do you need a Safe Space? No one „deserves“ anything. Life is unfair.
Woke „workers“ are useless, untalented and easily replaceable…
I don't understand how Google can delay a vote but claim no responsibility in bargaining with the union.
They stopped working for 6 months.
oh the worker shortage is very real eh, everywhere has a worker shortage the news pumps
Jesus thats cold ❄️
What’s wrong with Google?? Are they secretly near bankruptcy??
Nope
No. They massively overhired just like everyone during covid, and now to cut expenses theyre slashing jobs instead of executive paychecks.
Probably? Too many board room parties with cocaine and lady boys?
OMG! The DING is perfect! Pure Comedy Gold!
I have this on repeat. It truly never gets old. No worries I am showing this to everyone. LMAO 🤣
Alphabet workers means lgbtqrs people?
All you had to do was go to work at the office
Hahahahaha...yup. Time expired all right.
If you have a Bachelor's degree (in an actual marketable domain), at least 3 years of experience and are still settling down for 19 bucks an hour PERHAPS you should rethink your life's goals...
Or lack there of. Those "workers" were $18.99/hour too much.
You don't even need a degree to make way more than $19 an hour.
Minimum wage at McDonald's, here in Los Angeles is $20/hr. They should just come over here and start cooking fries. Maybe with their BA degree they can work their way up to management, in about 3 years. LOL.
@@briannolan7818 You are asking people that worked at desk probably half time checking their own social media and half time doing some random work. I doubt these people actually did something productive.
The fact that they actually knew beforehand that something was happening, they should have tried to apply for same position elsewhere, but they didnt, because their job was nothing and nobody wants bunch of nobodies.
@@doroza2lol- So true
I have a new video to watch when I need a feel-good moment.
So upset that she no longer works a low paying job that mistreats their employees. Lmao
Music industry pay for workers is a complete Joke. I watch a phat cat get rich while I struggled everyday as a manger at their company.
Wah waj wah...oh wait they just canned all of us.
Ok bye.
You’re a contracted employer, they don’t have to give you anything more than is in your contract.
If you are not making enough money look for a new job.
Learn to weld.
Google and alphabet has gotten to big...
I used RUclips music. I don't know if I do anymore....
You need to change your perspective on life. There were 50 of them. They were working exceptionally hard, and not treated well. They had a legitimate request, and were fired for it. From a trillion dollar company.
@@-SuperUserstop talking shit you didn't do anything
Fuck unions! They eventually destroy everything they touch.
They should have resigned and look for better place to work if the place was not good to work. Rather than going against a company. Company also have revenue goals.
@@mikeymike1374your little girls got fired 😂😂😂😂😂😂 cope and seethe
sorry you are expired! and your time is up!
Be happy getting no health Insurance not being paid a living wage & being a 3rd party contractor or someone else from Down South can do your job.