Google fired twenty-eight employees who participated in protests against the Nimbus Project, a $1.2 billion cloud contract with the Israeli government that also involved Amazon.
A Google spokesperson stated, “Physically blocking the work of others and denying access to our facilities is a clear violation of our policies and is entirely unacceptable behavior.”
The terminations began after nine employees who participated in a sit-in protest in California and New York were arrested by the police late on Tuesday and subsequently fired.
Following this, nineteen more individuals who participated in a sit-in protest at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale and at another office in New York were also terminated.
Last month, the company also fired another employee who disrupted an Israeli tech conference in New York.
The protesting employees announced that they would continue their protests “until the company abandons the Nimbus Project.”
Google employees had previously succeeded in convincing the company to terminate a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense in 2018. This project, called Project Maven, aimed to assist the military in analyzing drone footage.
