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Google fires another 20 employees amid protest over cloud contract with Israel: Report
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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The protests are being led by the “No Tech for Apartheid” organisation and focused on Project Nimbus — Google and Amazon’s joint $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud computing services.
Tech giant Google has terminated another 20 plus employees amid the internal protest against labour conditions and the company’s $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services, according to a report by The Verge on April 23.
The report citing organisers claims terminations included “non-participating bystanders.” Jane Chung, a spokesperson for No Tech for Apartheid said an email to The Verge states that these additional firings take the total number to over 50.
This development comes after Google terminated 28 employees as per an internal memo on April 17. This was on the back of a series of multi-city protests against labour conditions and the company’s $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services.
CNBC last week reported that nine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges after staging a sit-in at the company’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office. According to the CNBC report, the arrests were live-streamed on Twitch by participants.
The protests are being led by the “No Tech for Apartheid” organisation and focused on Project Nimbus — Google and Amazon’s joint $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud computing services. These include artificial intelligence tools, data centres and other cloud infrastructure.
According to the memo sent by Chris Rackow, Google’s vice president of global security, Googlers were on April 17 told that “following investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight employees found to be involved. We will continue to investigate and take action as needed.”
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