Roughly 200 Google employees and supporters rallied to protest the suspension of two colleagues, Rebecca Rivers and Laurence Berland, for allegedly accessing internal information they shouldn’t have in the course of worker activism. Now, it appears Google has fired both those workers, as well as two other employees who participated in the rally.
Don't be evil war gestern. Google geht immer härter gegen Proteste im eigenen Haus vor. Die US-Arbeitnehmerschutzbehörde NLRB sagt jetzt in zwei Fällen: Die Kündigungen und Einschüchterungen des Konzerns verletzen das Arbeitsrecht.
Claire Stapleton, one of the organizers of the watershed Google Walkout protest, has penned a first-person essay for Elle magazine detailing her time at the search giant and the series of events leading up to her resignation this past June after alleged retaliation from upper management.It’s well worth a read to understand the fraught state of Google’s culture.