Google fired us for organizing. We’re fighting back
medium.com
medium.com
"The four engineers fired by Google just before Thanksgiving for allegedly e-stalking co-workers have said they will file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board claiming they were subject to an illegal intimidation campaign.
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Google said it fired the workers for “data security violations,” saying they electronically stalked colleagues working on technology for US Customs and Border Protection. The company says they tracked fellow Googlers suspected of working those projects and leaked confidential information about their targets."
The belief in social-justice oriented companies, inclusion oriented-companies, etc while they themselves are working in the middle of a contractor/temp worker caste hell, with plenty of harassments (of any type), mobbing and the like.
There is a lot of naivety.
Nonetheless, it's good for Silicon Valley to be occasionally reminded that labor laws are a thing.
and yet I must admit I laughed