Last week Google fired 28 employees who had participated in a sit-in aimed at getting the company to end cooperation with Israel.
“Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and completely unacceptable behavior,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement.
Years before the dismissals, tensions had been simmering between the company’s management and some activist employees over Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Google and Amazon deal to supply the Israeli government with cloud services, such as artificial intelligence…
That seemed to be the end of it until yesterday when another group of 20 employees got the axe.
Google has fired an additional 20 employees who participated in a protest last week against the company’s defense contract with the Israeli government.
This brings the total number of…
