Google on Wednesday terminated 28 employees after a series of protests against labor conditions and the company's contract to provide the Israeli government and military.
An internal memo sent by Chris Rackow, Google's vice president of global security, on Wednesday night informed the employees that "following investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight employees found to be involved. We will continue to investigate and take action as needed."
Earlier on Tuesday night nine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges after staging a sit-in at the company's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office.
The arrests, livestreamed on Twitch by participants, followed rallies outside Google offices in New York, Sunnyvale and Seattle. The demonstrations were reportedly attended by hundreds of participants.
The protests were organized by the No Tech for Apartheid organization, focused on Project Nimbus – Google and Amazon's joint $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud computing services, including AI tools, data centers, and other cloud infrastructure.
