Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government. The Alphabet unit said a small number of protesting employees entered and disrupted work at a few unspecified office locations.
Google fired 28 employees who were involved in anti-Israel protests at its New York City and Sunnyvale, California, offices after they refused to leave the premises.
Google has fired more than two dozen employees following protests against the company's cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government. The workers were terminated after a company investigation determined they were involved in protests on Tuesday inside the tech giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale,
Google has sacked 28 workers who took part in protests against a deal the technology giant has with the Israeli government. Google has a joint contract with Amazon worth $1.2bn (£9.6m) called Project Nimbus which provides Israel's government and military with cloud computing and AI infrastructure.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has fired 28 employees after they were involved in protests against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion joint contract with Amazon.com Inc. to provide the Israeli government with AI and cloud services.
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.
These employees' arrests, and demonstrations outside Google offices in New York, California, and Washington, come as the Israel-Hamas war stretches into its sixth month.
Google is facing backlash from workers and activists after firing 28 employees who staged a sit-in over a contract with Israel. On Tuesday, employees staged a sit-in in Google’s Silicon Valley and New York offices,
The protests, organized by the No Tech for Apartheid campaign, raised concerns about Google and Amazon's $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and military called Project Nimbus.
The protesting workers said their demonstrations were peaceful and pushed back against Google’s claims that they defaced office property and impeded the work of others.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a 1,200-word memo to his global workforce after pro-Palestinian staffers stormed offices in New York, Seattle and Sunnyvale, Calif.
The tech giant fired 28 employees who took part in a protest over the company's Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government. One fired worker tells her story.
Google workers have the right to peacefully protest about terms and conditions of our labor,” employees said in a statement. “These firings were clearly retaliatory.”
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The protest was organized by the “No Tech for Apartheid” campaign, which claims that Google and Amazon are leading “the world’s first AI powered genocide” by allowing Israel to access its technology,
The tech giant fired 28 employees who took part in a protest over the company's Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government. One fired worker tells her story.
Pro-Palestine demonstrators are speaking out after Google fired 28 employees for protesting at their offices in Sunnyvale, Seattle, and New York on Tuesday.
Google has fired 28 employees in the aftermath of protests over technology that the internet company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, further escalating tensions surrounding a
Employees staged sit-ins at Google's offices this week demanding the company stop selling its technology to the Israeli government. Google then fired more than two dozen of these workers.
Google LLC has fired 28 employees who held protests at two of its offices over the company’s business ties with Israel. Chris Rackow, the search giant’s vice president of global security, announced the dismissals in an internal memo sent late Wednesday.
In a companywide memo obtained by The Post, Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow said their “behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel
Google has fired 28 employees for participating in sit-in protests against the company’s contract with the Israeli government. This came shortly after the police arrested nine workers staging the protests.
urielblanco (CNN) — Google despidió a más de dos docenas de empleados que protestaron esta semana contra el contrato de computación en la nube de la empresa con el Gobierno de Israel. Los trabajadores