Google has fired dozens of employees involved in anti-Israel protests that took over the corporate offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California. In a memo to employees, Google Vice President of Global Security Chris Rackow announced that 28 staffers who participated in a 10 hour sit-in at the company's offices, including the personal office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, were terminated Wednesday after an internal investigation.
Rackow added that the protest violated Google's employee code of conduct and workplace harassment and standards of conduct policies. "We are a place of business and every Googler is expected to read our policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and communicate in our workplace. The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing.
Jane Chung, a spokeswoman for the protesters, blasted the firings in a statement. "This evening, Google indiscriminately fired 28 workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests," Google workers said in the statement. "This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.
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