Google is terminating the employment of 28 workers after protests against labor conditions and the company's contract to provide the Israeli government.
Google fired 28 employees Thursday following sit-ins at the company’s New York and Sunnyvale, California, offices.
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Protesters are set to take to the streets in support of Palestine after a fraught week in Australian politics. Rallies are scheduled for Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra on Saturday as concerns grow over the plight of civilians in Gaza. Former journalist turned UNICEF worker Tess Ingram was shot at on Tuesday while attempting to deliver […]
Toshiba Corp is considering cutting thousands of workers in Japan as part of efforts to reduce costs and improve business efficiency, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The job cuts, mainly targeting the company's back-office departments, are expected to be included in its business strategy due to be announced
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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...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google has put more than two dozen employees on immediate
Nine Google workers were arrested Tuesday after sit-in protests, including a nine-hour sit-in at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office in Sunnyvale.
Elon Musk said Friday (April 12) that charging users a “small fee” to become active on X may be necessary to reduce bots and spam on the social media platform. “Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots,” he wrote in a Monday […]
Dozens of workers who make and serve food for Meta employees picketed the tech giant’s San Francisco office on Thursday, part of a push for a new union contract with culinary service provider Flagship. Cooks, servers and dishwashers wielded noisemakers and signs with messages like, “One job should be enough,” outside Meta’s office at 250 Howard Street in SoMa. Though the workers receive considerably less attention than Instagram and Facebook executives, they provide a mainstay perk for...
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.