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Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large of Recode. You may know me as someone who is going to walk right out of the studio now if you don't give me a five-star review on Apple Podcasts.

But in my spare time, I'm just a reporter and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about power change and the people you need to know around the tech industry were part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Last Friday was the one-year anniversary of the Google walkout in which 20,000 employees and contractors protested the company's handling of a range of issues.

And today on Recode Decode, we're talking about that protest and everything that has happened in the past year.

In the first part of the show, I'll be talking to Recode's Shireen Gaffari about what's been happening at Google and other companies since the walkout.

After that, we'll hear from the organizers of the 2018 walkout about why most of them have since left Google.

And then to close out today's show, we'll focus on a very big ongoing issue in tech right now, which is the use of contractors who don't have the same rights and benefits as employees.

But first, let's hear from Shireen Gaffari. Shireen, how are you doing?

Pretty good, thanks. So you've been covering this. You've been writing a lot about tech and activism and labor.

So let's focus first on the Google walkout. After it was done, did Google employees get the changes they were asking for?

Well, in some ways, yes. I mean, they got their first major demand, which was to end forest arbitration.

So that means that Google employees can now take their employer to court if, let's say, you're a Google worker and you're sexually harassed by your manager on the job.

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