Approximately 20 more employees were fired following sit-in protests at Google facilities on April 16, bringing the total of workers let go to more than 50. The workers demanded that Google drop its Project Nimbus,
The group that led protests last week at Google over a cloud computing contract with Israel said more Google workers were fired, bringing the total to more than 50.
Google fired at least 20 more employees on Monday evening related to the April 16 sit-in protests of the company’s cloud computing contracts with Israel, No Tech For Apartheid organizers tell Gizmodo.
The staff dismissals are a continuation of Google firing 28 employees who protested against the company’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government last week. The staff were fired after an investigation found that they had staged protests inside Google’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale,
The firings confirmed by Google late Wednesday came a day after nine employees were arrested during sit-in protests at offices in New York and Sunnyvale after the company called police.
Google has fired more than 20 additional workers following last week’s protests over the tech giant’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government, the group that organized the protests said Monday night.
Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, bringing the total number of terminated staff to more than 50,
About 20 more Google staffers were fired in the past week following the in-office protests against the company's cloud computing contract with the Israeli government, The Washington Post reported. The latest pink slips follow the expulsion of at least 28 employees last week after they held sit-in demonstrations at Google offices across the country,
The protests, which initially erupted at Google offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, last week, garnered attention as workers voiced their opposition to the company's participation in "Project Nimbus.