Around 300 employees at DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence subsidiary based in London, are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union (CWU). The move marks a significant development in the increasingly active labor organization efforts among tech industry workers.
While details on the specific motivations remain forthcoming, the unionization effort underscores growing concerns around workers’ rights, transparency, pay structures, and governance within the rapidly evolving AI sector. DeepMind has historically operated semi-independently from Google, though in recent years it has been more closely integrated into the tech giant’s broader operations.
The Communication Workers Union represents a broad range of professionals across various industries in the United Kingdom, and the addition of AI researchers and staff from DeepMind could signal a widening scope for labor representation in tech.
Neither DeepMind nor Google has yet issued a formal response to the unionization campaign as of this report.
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