IG Metall 
wins meeting


Google Deutschland, the German subsidiary of the owner of YouTube, has agreed to a meeting with IG Metall, the country’s biggest union. 


This follows a threat by the union to take the company to court over its employment and data protection practices unless it met the union (see Labour Research, September 2019, page 8). 


IG Metall is working with the YouTubers Union to get the company to change the way it deals with content providers. 


Christiane Benner, vice-president of IG Metall, said the fact that Google had agreed to a meeting was evidence that “the pressure had paid off”.


https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/08/23/google-youtube-youtuber-union-ig-metall-german-lawsuit/

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/evjnew/google-agrees-to-meet-with-youtubers-union-right-before-deadline