Google fires 28 workers after protest over Israeli contract
by The Washington Times
The Washington Times— Google fired 28 employees Thursday following sit-ins at the company’s New York and Sunnyvale, California, offices.
Engadget—Google fired 28 workers who protested Israeli government cloud contract. Google has fired 28 employees involved in protests against the company's "Project Nimbus" cloud contract with the Israeli government, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge. That follows the arrest and suspension of nine employees on April 16 and a previous firing related to the same project last month. Some of the fired workers were forcibly removed after occupying the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. Google head of global security Chris Rackow said that the company "will not...
The Foreign Desk—Google Fires 28 Workers Who Protested Cloud-Sharing Contract with Israel Government. Nine Google employees were arrested while participating in sit-in protests at Google offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, Calif. The post Google Fires 28 Workers Who Protested Cloud-Sharing Contract with Israel Government first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.
The Guardian—Google fires 28 staff after protest against firm’s contract with Israeli government. Google workers linked to No Tech for Apartheid denounce ‘flagrant act of retaliation’ in dispute over $1.2bn cloud contractGoogle said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company’s cloud contract with the Israeli government. Employees staged sit-ins at their offices, some for more than eight hours.The Alphabet unit said a small number of pro-Palestine employees entered and disrupted work at a few unspecified office locations. They...