Memo: Google fires four employees, citing data-security violations, amid rising tension between management and staff
But Critics Say It's Retaliation for Protesting Charlie Wood / Business Insider : Googlers say the company is trying to crush worker organization after it fired 4 people Cara Curtis / The Next Web : Google fires 4 activist employees over alleged ‘data-security’ violations Margi Murphy / Telegraph : Google sacks workers for data leak amid crackdown on employee activists South China Morning Post : Google fires four employees, including staffer tied to protests Tweets: Rebecca Rivers / @tri_becca90 : I was just informed by @Google that I am being terminated. Elizabeth Warren / @ewarren : Google recently hired a notorious union-busting firm—and yesterday, fired four employees who were organizing their colleagues and holding Google accountable. I stand with Rebecca Rivers and her colleagues. I'll always fight to protect workers' rights. https://www.nytimes.com/... Tom Kibasi / @tomkibasi : In case you were wondering why they dropped “Don't be evil” as their corporate slogan https://www.nytimes.com/... Spek / @spekulation : “This comes shortly after The New York Times reported Google hired an anti-union firm, ISI Consultants. Google employees, who the Times kept anonymous, discovered Google's relationship with ISI via internal calendar entries.” https://techcrunch.com/... Mike Monteiro / @monteiro : Fuck Google for this. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Aaron Klein / @aaronklein : For crying out loud, there are nearly 7 million jobs out there desperately searching for qualified humans. If you don't like where you work, have the class and self-confidence to resign and find something better. https://twitter.com/... Ashleigh R / @technicalleigh : I am SO glad I resigned from @Google in protest. It's astounding how many new ways they find to be intentionally unethical. The company “won't tolerate Googlers' work being undermined”, even when it's blatantly unethical and potentially illegal work. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Joe Redmon / @pjreddie : As a @GoogleAI PhD fellow I am extremely disappointed to see @google illegally firing workers for trying to improve their workplace. If you want job security and the ability to speak out when you see something that's wrong: do not go work at Google. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson : “When other employees have engaged in the conduct Google cites in its memo, have they been fired?...If not, Google will likely have to reinstate the employees and pay them backpay,” @WorkLawProf tells me https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Last week a Google employee leaked to the NY Times about software installed to monitor employee gatherings, how they discovered this including checking on the calendars of fellow employees. Unsurprisingly Google has fired 4 people for these actions. https://www.bloomberg.com/... @pinboard : Four Googlers have been fired in what appears to be a response to organizing efforts at the company: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Obscene Thanksgiving Vandal / @acekatana : In case you're wondering where we are on the cyberpunk dystopia timeline, google is just betting on laws not applying to it. https://twitter.com/... Generic Soy Milk / @emilygorcenski : Google has fired a labor organizer. It's time to break up Google. https://twitter.com/... Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : Google told staff it had fired four people today in a memo titled “Securing our data.” Here's the memo. (story with @GerritD & @rj_gallagher; more coming). https://www.bloomberg.com/... Liz Fong-Jones / @lizthegrey : It's not just Rebecca. Others have been terminated too, without warning. More to come. https://twitter.com/...