Google Fiber Workers to Vote Next Month on Unionization (2)

Alphabet Inc. sub-contracted workers at a Google Fiber retail store in Missouri will vote next month on whether to unionize, the U.S. labor board announced Thursday.

Ballots will be mailed March 4, the National Labor Relations Board said. The original petition last month from the Alphabet Workers Union <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"R55QFNDWRGG5","_id":"0000017e-e5a7-d139-a9ff-e5ff7d2a0001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">asked the labor board to deem Alphabet a “joint employer” of the roughly dozen Google Fiber staff the union seeks to represent.

If the union had prevailed the internet giant would have been legally required to collectively bargain over those workers’ conditions. But the union withdrew that petition to speed up the ...