Google employees protested the contract with the Israeli army. For this purpose, many employees in different offices come together. came.
today there are many Google employee talks about the company’s $1.2 billion Project Nimbus with the Israeli government to protest the cloud deal new York And sunnyvale closed its offices. As you can imagine, the employees who held a sit-in protest in the offices with banners in their hands want the contract to be canceled and the aid to the Israeli army to be cut off. Google This issue has also been on the agenda in recent months. The company carries out work for the Israeli army, which is currently busy with the occupation of Palestine and also with Iran. He fired an employee who protested, as you can see in the video below. A man stood up during a presentation by an executive from Google’s Israeli side. Google Cloud engineer, “I refuse to develop technology that powers genocide or surveillance” he shouted.
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Making a statement on this issue, Google spokesperson Bailey Tomson said, “Regardless of the issue, this behavior is not right and our employee was terminated for violating our policies.” he said. According to reports, the fired engineer was at the event Israel of your government Google and also signed by Amazon for access to cloud services He protested Project Nimbus. Project NimbusIt will mediate increased surveillance of Palestinians and the collection of more unlawful data about them.” has been frequently protested before by both employees and people outside the company.
BREAKING—PRO-PALESTINE @googlecloud ENGINEER DISRUPTS @Google ISRAEL DIRECTOR AT GOOGLE-SPONSORED ISRAELI TECH CONFERENCE IN NYC.
The worker that demanded Google STOP using worker labor to power genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. #NoTechForApartheid pic.twitter.com/t2mqCqFFay
— No Tech For Apartheid (@NoTechApartheid) March 4, 2024
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Google It has also made several large-scale layoffs in the past period. In fact, as reported, the company spent billions of dollars for these layoffs. internet giant According to the analysis, it is fully ready to complete around 12 thousand layoffs in 2023. It has spent around 2.1 billion dollars. As for the layoffs made by the company within the scope of 2024, It is reported that it spent 700 million dollars.
When parting ways with his employees compensation they should give them And some other legal tenders Of course, the company saves money in the long run with these layoffs, but the cost of large layoffs made all at once seems really high. Meanwhile, today payment giant PayPal 2,500Block, the company of Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter, 1,000 It was also announced that he parted ways with 500 employees.