In a first for any union – the CWU has launched a brand new weekly show, airing Thursday’s at 7pm.
We will bring you the latest news and views from across the union with some brilliant guests involved. Crucially though, we will make sure that members are at the centre of things.
A long format show isn’t for everyone, so every Friday we will produce shorter highlight clips that will be shared below with the full length episode. We will also produce extracts from the show in podcast form.
This week we have an EXTRA SPECIAL episode of CWU Live, where we dive into all things conference. We talk to members, reps and leaders of the union across postal, T&FS and tech; the fastest growing sector of our union. Tune in to hear about all the insights and reflections on the future direction of our union.
Our tech branch UTAW have a statement onthe recent firings of Google employees part of the No Tech for Apartheid campaign.
Full text below:
You may have heard that Google sacked workers for protesting a $1.2b military contract with Israel, called Project Nimbus.
Since 2021, Googlers have been organising a campaign called No Tech For Apartheid, asking Google to drop Project Nimbus. Last week Google dismissed workers who staged a sit-in, but didn't stop there.
They also dismissed workers passing by who stopped to talk to their colleagues and workers who weren't even in the office at the time, for a total of over 50 terminated employees.
Google is trying to clean house because they know that worker dissent is a threat to their war profiteering.
As a tech union, we condemn Google's disproportionate retaliation against workers protesting the conditions of their labour, including Project Nimbus, safety and ethical concerns associated with the contract, and a pattern of workplace bias.
UTAW members at Google stand with our colleagues in the USA and call on Google to drop Project Nimbus. We will continue to organise No Tech For Apartheid in the UK until Google drops Nimbus.
Support us by sharing this story and by going to notechforapartheid.com and taking the click2email action.
