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YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions::Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google's refusal to negotiate with the union.

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 10 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The entire YouTube Music team is out of a job as tensions rise at Google parent company, Alphabet.

"We just got laid off, our jobs are ending today, effective immediately," one worker tells the city council in video of the meeting.

In a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, the union said the YouTube Music team was based out of Austin, and was receiving such low pay that some members were working multiple jobs to make ends meet.

The YouTube Music team previously went on strike in February 2023 over Google's crackdown on remote work.

Pichai and Google are feeling the growing pressure of competition from new innovations in artificial intelligence, heightened by the company's recent failures with AI, BI previously reported.

Google recently put a hold on its AI image generator, Gemini, after it created historically inaccurate photos.


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