{"id":6719,"date":"2022-08-18T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/hundreds-of-google-workers-demand-abortion-care-protections\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:38:06","slug":"hundreds-of-google-workers-demand-abortion-care-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/hundreds-of-google-workers-demand-abortion-care-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Google workers demand abortion care protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The petition by Alphabet Workers Union outlines measures to safeguard employee and user data in light of abortion prosecution<\/p>\n<p>More than 650 Google workers have signed on to a petition lobbying the tech behemoth to adopt policies that could protect and provide support for employees and consumers seeking abortion care. <\/p>\n<p>The demands were threefold: workers asked that the company extend access to reproductive healthcare benefits already offered to full-time employees to temporary and contract workers; second, the company stop any and all political lobbying of politicians or organizations \u201cbecause these politicians were responsible for appointing the supreme court justices who overturned Roe v Wade and continue to infringe on other human rights issues\u201d. Last, they demanded Google stop storing health-related data that could later be used to criminalize users and address the disinformation and misinformation found in search results.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/18\/google-workers-demand-safety-abortion-care\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1fc671a63c1c283dcb03503c31f76699de40d5df\/0_37_4602_2764\/master\/4602.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=09198344f61eda9bb2ccc8ead0d842b9\" title=\"Hundreds of Google workers demand abortion care protections\" \/>The petition by Alphabet Workers Union outlines measures to safeguard employee and user data in light of abortion prosecution<br \/>\nMore than 650 Google workers have signed on to a petition lobbying the tech behemoth to adopt policies that could protect and provide support for employees and consumers seeking abortion care.<br \/>\nThe demands were threefold: workers asked that the company extend access to reproductive healthcare benefits already offered to full-time employees to temporary and contract workers; second, the company stop any and all political lobbying of politicians or organizations \u201cbecause these politicians were responsible for appointing the supreme court justices who overturned Roe v Wade and continue to infringe on other human rights issues\u201d. Last, they demanded Google stop storing health-related data that could later be used to criminalize users and address the disinformation and misinformation found in search results. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The petition by Alphabet Workers Union outlines measures to safeguard employee and user data in light of abortion prosecution More than 650 Google workers have signed on to a petition lobbying the tech behemoth to adopt policies that could protect and provide support for employees and consumers seeking abortion care. The demands were threefold: workers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/hundreds-of-google-workers-demand-abortion-care-protections\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hundreds of Google workers demand abortion care protections<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}