Google fired 28 employees who took part in protests against the “Project Nimbus” cloud agreement signed by the Israeli government. The Verge. This follows the arrest and suspension of nine employees on April 16 previous fire on the same project last month.
Some of the fired workers were forced out after occupying the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, said the company “will not tolerate” such cases and warned that the company may take additional measures.
“If you’re one of the few who wants to think we’re going to ignore behavior that violates our policies, think again,” he told employees in the letter. “The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies for taking action against disruptive behavior — including termination.”
This kind of behavior has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it. It clearly violates many policies that all employees must follow, including our Code of Conduct and our Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Standards of Conduct, and Workplace Harassment.
However, workers from the No Technology for Apartheid group, which organized the protests, called the dismissals “a clear act of revenge”. He added that Google was “insulting” that the protests were largely involving people who don’t work at the company, adding that the push to abandon Project Nimbus was supported by “thousands” of his colleagues.
“In three years of organizing against Project Nimbus, we have yet to hear from a single leader about our concerns,” he said. Medium post. “Google employees have the right to peacefully protest the terms and conditions of their employment. These firings were clearly retaliatory.”
