United States: USW union secures a presence in a Google contractor company

On 24 September 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 80 employees at the IT services company HCL voted by a 61% majority to join the United Steelworkers Union and have the union represent their interests. The IT services provision HCL staff who work on a daily basis alongside staff at the internet giant Google, are now joining forces with the 850,000 workers who are already USW members. They will organize under the Pittsburgh Association of Tech Professionals (PATP) that supports Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania workers in high-tech fields. This move to unionize remains an exception in the Tech sector, which although certainly not a stranger to mobilization, seldom sees unionization votes actually succeed.