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‘Large group’ of Irish Google workers turn to union as tech crunch bites

The Financial Services Union has seen an influx of new members from the tech giant and other firms such as Stripe

Google: Potential job losses have spurred workers at the tech giant in Ireland to sign up with the FSU. Picture: Getty

A “large group” of Google workers in Ireland are unionising as they face the prospect of job losses due to recently announced cuts at the Big Tech firm.

The Financial Services Union (FSU) has had an influx in members from Google in recent weeks and has begun a recruitment campaign to encourage more workers in the tech sector to join. A small number of staff at Stripe have also joined the union since redundancies were ...