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This was announced by the workers’ lawyer. complaint Google said it had “retaliated against approximately 50 employees” and had them fired or placed on administrative leave. Last month, Google announced it had fired 28 employees for internal protests in New York City and Sunnyvale, California.
Google actions, worker actions The lawyers said they were “in response to participating in (or being deemed to participate in) their protected concert activities, i.e., peaceful, non-disruptive protests that are directly and explicitly related to working conditions.” It is written that
A Google spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider that this behavior is “totally unacceptable.”
“This is a clear example of an employee obstructing or occupying a work space or causing other employees to feel threatened or unsafe,” the statement said. “We have carefully reviewed and reaffirmed that everyone whose employment was terminated was directly and decisively involved in the disturbance within the building.”
Representatives from the NLRB did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BI outside of normal business hours.
Google announced in an internal memo on April 17 that protesters had taken over office space and defaced company property.
“This kind of behavior has no place in our workplace and cannot be tolerated,” the company said in a statement.
The workers had voiced opposition to Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion joint agreement between Google and Amazon to provide artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to Israel.
Protesters argued that the deal, the details of which were made public in 2021, would allow the Israeli government to monitor and forcibly remove Palestinians.
But Google told BI last month that its work does not cover highly sensitive or classified military projects related to weapons or intelligence.
A Google spokesperson told BI: “The Nimbus contract is for workloads run by Israeli government agencies on our commercial cloud, and Israeli government agencies are subject to our terms of service and terms of service. I agree,” he told BI.
The ongoing dispute between Google and some employees highlights the difficult balance between a company’s business interests and its employees’ desire for self-expression.
During December, washington post Approximately 1,700 Amazon employees reported signing a petition against Project Nimbus.
The signatories claimed that Amazon’s cloud technology would be used by Israel to “oppress Palestinian activists and impose a brutal siege on Gaza.”
Asked about the petition, Amazon spokesperson Rob Munoz told the Post that the tech giant is “committed to making the benefits of world-leading cloud technology available to all customers, wherever they are.” I’m doing it,” he said.