VIDEO: Workers like me need layoff protections… Yurie is a contract worker and a member of Alphabet Workers Union. This is their story. August 18, 2023 Blog, Video | Contract Workers Click to Copy Link Some tech companies are using contract work to fissure our workforce, as contract worker Yurie, a member of Alphabet Workers Union, explains. It creates a lower class of workers that don’t get things like layoff protections.This needs to change. That’s why we developed the Protect Laid-Off Workers Act (AB 1356).