Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract
by New York Post
New York Post— In a companywide memo obtained by The Post, Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow said their “behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened.”
Daily Mail—Google FIRES 28 employees over their involvement in $1.2B Israel contract protest inside New York and California offices. Search engine giant Google has fired nearly 30 of its US employees after they were arrested for staging sits-ins at the company's offices to protest its contract with the Israeli government
Los Angeles Times—Google fires 28 employees who protested Israel cloud contract. Google has terminated 28 employees after dozens of workers participated in sit-ins inside company offices this week to protest the tech giant's work in Israel amid the war against Hamas in Gaza. The protests, organized by the No Tech for Apartheid campaign, raised concerns about Google and Amazon's $1.2-billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government and military. The campaign is demanding that Google and Amazon drop the effort, known as Project Nimbus. The advocacy group staged...
Drudge Report—Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract. Google has fired more than two dozen employees for protesting its $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud and artificial intelligence services. Twenty-eight people were fired after nine employees were arrested Tuesday night following a sit-in at the company’s offices in Seattle, New York and Sunnyvale, California — including one at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office, according to the group that organized the demonstration, No Tech for Apartheid....