Consumer Law
Workers at Waymo Form Union in an Effort to Organize Silicon Valley
Food service employees at the autonomous driving company Waymo are forming a union, the latest push by support workers to organize at Silicon Valley’s most prominent companies.
The cafeteria workers at the Mountain View-based company cite the high cost of living in the Bay Area and the lack of strong benefits while working for one of the world’s most valuable companies. Waymo is owned by Google parent company, Alphabet.
The workers are employed by Sodexo, which contracts service work for Google and other companies. Organizers say they have a majority of union cards signed from the roughly two dozen-person bargaining unit.
