Google Fires More Workers Who Protested Its Deal With Israel

According to a workers’ representative group, Google fired at least 20 more employees in response to protests over the technology it provided to the Israeli government during the Gaza conflict, bringing the total number of fired employees to more than 50.

It’s the most recent indication of internal conflict at the tech giant, which centers on “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion agreement that Google and Amazon signed in 2021 to provide cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli government.

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Google Fires More Workers Who Protested Its Deal With Israel

Last week, workers staged sit-in protests at Google offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California. The corporation responded by contacting the police, who made arrests.

No Tech For Apartheid, the group coordinating the protests, said the company dismissed 30 staff last week, up from the initial 28 disclosed.

Then, on Tuesday night, Google dismissed “over 20” more employees, “including non-participating bystanders during last week’s protests,” according to Jane Chung, a spokesperson for No Tech For Apartheid, who did not provide a particular figure.

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Google Fires More Workers Who Protested Its Deal With Israel

“Google’s aims are clear: the corporation is attempting to quash dissent, silence its workers, and reassert its power over them,” Chung said in a statement. “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.”

They stated that it fired the extra workers after gathering information from coworkers who were “physically disrupted” and identifying employees who donned masks and did not carry their staff badges to conceal their identity. It did not specify how many were fired.

The corporation denied the group’s allegations, claiming that “every single one of those whose employment was terminated was personally and definitively involved in disruptive activity inside our buildings.”

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Google Fires More Workers Who Protested Its Deal With Israel

The Mountain View, California-based corporation had previously hinted that more individuals could be dismissed, with CEO Sundar Pichai stating in a blog post that employees would be on a tight leash as the company ramped up its efforts to improve its AI technology.

SOURCE – (AP)