Congrats Google! Another thumbs up.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13341355/Google-fires-20-workers-staff-staged-anti-Israel-protests-CEO-Sundar-Pichai-says-workplace-isnt-politics.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13341355/Google-fires-20-workers-staff-staged-anti-Israel-protests-CEO-Sundar-Pichai-says-workplace-isnt-politics.html
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Google fires 20 more workers after staff staged anti-Israel protests as CEO Sundar Pichai says workplace isn't for politicsBy JAMES CIRRONE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
- Google has fired at least 20 more workers found to be associated with protests
- CEO Sundar Pichai denounced protestors for disrupting their coworkers
- The tech giant has fired around 50 employees over anti-Israel demonstrations
PUBLISHED: 12:51 EDT, 23 April 2024 | UPDATED: 12:55 EDT, 23 April 2024
Google has fired at least 20 more of its employees for protesting the technology its giving to Israel as the war in Gaza rages on.
This comes after Google fired approximately 30 employees last week after they were arrested for staging sits-ins at the company's offices in Sunnyvale, California and New York City, bringing the total number terminated to around 50.
Google said it fired the additional employees because after an internal investigation, the company identified other staffers who used masks and didn't carry their badges to hide their identities.
No Tech For Apartheid, an organization critical of Google and Amazon's contract with Israel that the fired employees are thought to be associated with, released a statement following the latest terminations.
'Google's aims are clear: the corporation is attempting to quash dissent, silence its workers, and reassert its power over them,' organization spokesperson Jane Chung said in a press release. 'In its attempts to do so, Google has decided to unceremoniously, and without due process, upend the livelihoods of over 50 of its own workers.'....
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