Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, bringing the total number of terminated staff to more than 50, a group representing the workers said.
It's the latest sign of internal turmoil at the tech giant centered on 바카라Project Nimbus,바카라 a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021 for Google and Amazon to provide the Israeli government with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services.
Workers held sit-in protests last week at Google offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California. The company responded by calling the police, who made arrests.
The group organizing the protests, No Tech For Apartheid, said the company fired 30 workers last week 바카라 higher than the initial 28 they had announced.
Then, on Tuesday night, Google fired 바카라over 20바카라 more staffers, 바카라including non-participating bystanders during last week's protests,바카라 said Jane Chung, a spokeswoman for No Tech For Apartheid, without providing a more specific number.
바카라Google's aims are clear: the corporation is attempting to quash dissent, silence its workers, and reassert its power over them,바카라 Chung said in a press release. 바카라In its attempts to do so, Google has decided to unceremoniously, and without due process, upend the livelihoods of over 50 of its own workers.바카라
Google said it fired the additional workers after its investigation gathered details from coworkers who were 바카라physically disrupted바카라 and it identified employees who used masks and didn't carry their staff badges to hide their identities. It didn't specify how many were fired.
The company disputed the group's claims, saying that it carefully confirmed that 바카라every single one of those whose employment was terminated was personally and definitively involved in disruptive activity inside our buildings.바카라
The Mountain View, California, company had previously signalled that more people could be fired, with CEO Sundar Pichai indicating in a blog post that employees would be on a short leash as the company intensifies its efforts to improve its AI technology.
