9 Google employees were arrested after staging sit-in protests in company’s offices in New York and California
The employees were protesting against a cloud project Google is involved in with the Israel government.
Now, Google has fired 28 employees for sit-in protests. Chris Rackow, head of security, Google sent a memo to all employees where he warned and said that “behaviour like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.”
The protestors — and presumably the sacked employees — were against a $1.2 billion contract Google has with Israel to provide cloud services and data centres.
According to the report, the protestors said that they would only leave when Google pulls out of the deal. The contract — known as Nimbus — was signed by Google in 2021.