Google fired four employees for “clear and repeated violations” of its data-security policies. All four were active in labor organizing
Google says it fired four employees this week over “clear and repeated violations” of its data-security policies. But critics of the company, including some of its own employees, see no coincidence in the firings, accusing the tech giant of attempting to “crush worker organizing;” all four employees were active in labor organizing. “Google retaliated against them,” employees in the Google Walkout For Real Change group wrote in a Medium post.
Employees, however, say Google recently “redrafted its policies” with the help of a union-busting firm to give itself an “excuse to retaliate against organizers, allowing the company a pretext for picking and choosing who to target.” One of the terminated employees, software engineer
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