The real headline is that the NLRB held Google and the staffing agency to be joint employers. Like other big tech companies Google has tried very hard to avoid

The real headline is that the NLRB held Google and the staffing agency to be joint employers. Like other big tech companies Google has tried very hard to avoid that designation, and have it be Google contracting with the staffing agency, which employed the workers. See Vizcaino v. Microsoft, settled for $97M in 2000 for a previous round of this.