Google Fires Employees , for Protesting Israel Contract.<br />28 Google workers have been fired for protesting <br />a $1.2 billion contract that the company has with <br />the Israeli government and military to provide <br />cloud and AI services, NBC News reports. .<br />The firings follow an April 16 sit-in at <br />Google's offices in California, New York and Seattle in which nine workers were arrested.<br />The group that coordinated the demonstration <br />is known as No Tech for Apartheid. .<br />Google issued a statement about the recent firings.<br />A small number of employee <br />protesters entered and disrupted <br />a few of our locations. , Google spokesperson, via statement.<br />Physically impeding other employees’ <br />work and preventing them from <br />accessing our facilities is a clear <br />violation of our policies, and <br />completely unacceptable behavior. , Google spokesperson, via statement.<br />We have so far concluded <br />individual investigations that <br />resulted in the termination of <br />employment for 28 employees, <br />and will continue to investigate <br />and take action as needed, Google spokesperson, via statement.<br />No Tech for Apartheid claims that the <br />workers were fired "indiscriminately.".<br />This excuse to avoid confronting <br />us and our concerns directly, <br />and attempt to justify its illegal, <br />retaliatory firings, is a lie, No Tech for Apartheid, via statement.<br />Meanwhile, many of Google's workers have <br />reportedly quit after experiencing "mental health consequences of working at a company that is using their labor to enable a genocide," No Tech for Apartheid said.<br />On a personal level, I am opposed <br />to Google taking any military <br />contracts — no matter which <br />government they’re with or what <br />exactly the contract is about. , Cheyne Anderson, a Google Cloud software engineer based <br />in Washington who was arrested during a sit-in, to CNBC
