Google has fired more than two dozen employees after they staged sit-ins at the web giant's offices to protest its cloud contract with the Israeli government.
Google fires 28 employees to protest company's contract with Israel | WSJ News
The sit-in protests, organized by the No Tech for Apartheid campaign, were held on April 16 at Google's offices in New York City and Google Cloud HQ in Sunnyvale, California. After about 10 hours of occupying the offices, during which the technicians were told to leave, police in Sunnyvale and NYC arrested nine employees, and Google later said in an internal memo that they and others had been fired.
"Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it," Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow said in an internal memo shared by the New York Post. “If you are one of the few tempted to believe that we will overlook behavior that violates our policy, think again.
"They took over office space, destroyed our property and physically impeded the work of other Googlers," the security chief added.
