'We're Google's lowest-paid workers, but we play a vital role' — Google search raters protest pay of less than $15 an hour

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Michelle Curtis has rated Google searches professionally for eight years — training, testing and evaluating the algorithms for the company’s dominant search engine — while making $13. Raters who belong to the union joined union leaders Wednesday in delivering a petition to Google headquarters containing their demands, which include a request for a meeting between the union and Prabhakar Raghavan, a senior vice president at Google. “These workers are fighting this rip-off work structure all over the place

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