Google Terminates Over Two Dozen Workers Over Project Nimbus Protests
Google fires 28 employees following a coordinated sit-in protesting the company's $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel. The tech giant cites severe policy violations, while organizers claim the dismissals are retaliatory.
Google fires more than two dozen employees after they stage coordinated protests against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. The workers, organized by the group No Tech for Apartheid, hold a 10-hour sit-in at Google offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, even occupying the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian.
Following the Tuesday demonstrations, Google has police arrest nine protesters and subsequently terminates 28 employees after an internal investigation. Google Vice President of Global Security Chris Rackow states in a company-wide email that the protesters take over office spaces, deface property, and physically impede the work of other employees, which clearly violates the company's Code of Conduct.
No Tech for Apartheid slams the terminations as retaliatory and disputes Google's claims about property damage and disrupted work. The organization insists that the protesters are actual Google employees and points out that some of the terminated workers do not even participate directly in the sit-in.