Sit-in protest over Israeli cloud contrast leads firing of 28 Google workers

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• The Project Nimbus, an Israeli government cloud contract has resulted in Google’s employees’ sit-in protests.
• Google has fired 28 employees and sent a demo to all workers in Google.
• The demo warns all employees who want to participate in protesting Google’s participation in the contract. They will continue to take measures.

Google fired 28 employees due to this week’s sit-in protests at two of its offices according to the Verge. The dismissed workers had participated in demonstrations against Google’s participation in Project Nimbus, an Israeli government cloud contract worth $1.2 billion that also involves Amazon.

The action Google took

Google halted the employees’ access to our systems and placed them under investigation. Law enforcement removed those who would not leave our offices and placed them under arrest.

Google fired the twenty-eight employees who were found to be involved today after conducting an investigation. The company will keep looking into the matter and take further action as necessary.

Google’s head of global security, Chris Rackow, issued a warning, saying that if additional action was required, the company would take it: “The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behaviour — up to and including termination.”

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More information about the memo sent to employees

According to the memo, employees was announced that a few workers carried the incident into our Sunnyvale and New York buildings. These workers are accused of vandalising the property, occupying office spaces, and physically interfering with other Googlers’ work. Their actions were deplorable, highly disruptive, and intimidating to other employees, the memo said.

The memo added that such conduct has no place in Google’s workplace and will not be accepted. It blatantly contravenes a number of rules that all workers are expected to follow, such as the standards of conduct, policy on harassment, discrimination, and retaliation, as well as the code of conduct.