What's unclear here is what exactly these people were told by Cognizant and Google when their employment at Cognizant started, and when their work at Google started. Also if this work is still being done by other employees.<p>If you don't have a closed shop, you need everyone to join the union, including potential future workers (and they won't agree to that unless they get paid, either by having jobs somewhere, or being paid to be in the bench).<p>A union has to be big. That's why AFL-CIO is a huge conglomerate and SEIU and Teamsters too, even though they separated back into 3, each still large.<p>Nowadays an information workers union especially has to be international, since there is little value to a specific location.
Multinational companies call for multinational unions. Citizens across the world should stand up to force their national governments to form international labor agreements.