Google terminates 28 employees after multi-city protests: Read the full memo
by CNBC
CNBC— Google terminated 28 employees Wednesday, according to an internal memo viewed by CNBC, after a series of protests against Project Nimbus.
Tech Times—Google Terminates 28 Employees Amid Protests Over Israeli Government Deal. The protests dispute Google's participation in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021 the company to offer cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to Israel.
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...
KSNT News—28 Google employees fired after protests at offices in California, New York. The protest was organized by the “No Tech for Apartheid” campaign, which claims that Google and Amazon are leading “the world’s first AI powered genocide” by allowing Israel to access its technology, organizers said.