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Alphabet accounted for roughly one-third of Appen’s revenue, meaning the decision to end the relationship will impact “at least two thousand subcontracted Alphabet workers,” according to a statement Monday from the Alphabet Workers Union. Appen, based in Australia, has helped train AI models for a star-studded list of tech behemoths. Five customers — Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google and Amazon — have in …
Around 80 contractual staff members who recently joined the Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America (AWU-CWA) and are part of Google Help, have been notified of their job cuts. This comes after a group of 120 contract employees announced their unionization effort in June. However, two-thirds of the workers received layoff notices shortly after, leaving …