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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Fired Us for Protesting Its Complicity in the War on Gaza. But We Won’t Be Silenced.  The Nation Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract  NBC News Google fires 28 staff after protests against cloud contract with Israel  Al Jazeera English Google fires 28 workers over Project Nimbus contract with Israeli government  NPR Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google Fires 28 Workers for Protesting Cloud Deal With Israel  WIRED Google just fired 28 employees who protested its contract with Israel  The Washington Post Google terminates 28 employees after multi-city protests: Read the full memo  CNBC Source link

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Google confirmed it fired an employee who protested publicly against Israel. The worker stood and shouted during a presentation by Google Israel’s managing director. The employee was protesting Project Nimbus, Google’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel’s government. A Google engineer who publicly protested a talk by the head of Google Israel is now out of a job. The employee… Source link

Google settles over firing of workers protesting immigration cloud deal | WTVB | 1590 AM · 95.5 FM | The Voice of Branch County … Source link

March 21 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has settled with six current and former employees who had alleged the company unfairly stifled worker organizing, an abrupt ending to a trial that had been paused for several months, legal filings show. The U.S. National Labor Relations Board had pursued the case on behalf of the workers and brought Google before an administrative law judge last year. Weeks of hearings were then stopped pending resolution of a dispute over whether the NLRB… Source link

Stock equity grants, which typically make up a significant portion of tech workers’ total compensation, are also being reduced starting last month. For some employees, that means their stock grants could be 25 percent lower than if they worked at other Google offices, like in Atlanta, the workers said in the letter. Story continues below advertisement The employees say they want the salary cut reversed, and a commitment from their bosses to be more transparent about how regional salary… Source link

Earlier this month, social media was set abuzz by DoorDash (DASH) drivers in California protesting outside the home of CEO Tony Xu, in an effort to push for more transparency around tips and higher wages. Roughly 50 delivery app drivers, part of the advocacy groups We Drive Progress and Gig Workers Rising, traveled caravan style to the front of Xu’s house in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.  The incident underscored the widening gap between wealthy Silicon Valley startup… Source link

DENVER — Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert has a message for the anarchists and radical leftists aggressively protesting her and a conservative conference: “Get a job.” “Maybe this is their job. Maybe they’re paid to do it,” Boebert said in an interview with the Washington Examiner on Saturday. “You see this from extreme leftist progressives because either this is their job, either they are paid to do it, or they have nothing better to do, they’re sitting at home collecting a check,… Source link

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — NBA referees will join the players and coaching staff in gathering around the “Black Lives Matter” signage on the court to kneel during the playing of the national anthem to peacefully protest racial injustice in America, league sources tell Yahoo Sports. The 45 referees selected by the league to officiate the restart recently had a “spirited” debate on whether to insert themselves into the storylines and it was decided that they wanted to support the… Source link