Over the past four years, Google has grappled with a wave of employee activism that has challenged the company's handling of sexual harassment, its business dealings with immigration enforcement agencies, its treatment of its massive subcontracted workforce, and most recently, a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli Defense Forces that is shared with Amazon. That activism culminated in 2021 with the announcement that workers across Alphabet, Google's parent company, had formed the Alphabet Workers Union with the Communications Workers of America.