Google employees claim they were unlawfully fired after Palestine demonstration

You might have seen this protest coming on a college campus, but maybe not on Google’s corporate campus.

Former Google employees are suing the corporation after it fired over 50 in April 2024 for participating in a simultaneous "day of action" for Palestine on two of its campuses, which the protesters argue is protected behavior under multiple state laws.

The nine former employees named in the class action called their termination “retaliatory” and are suing on behalf of all employees fired for demonstrating at the company’s New York City and Sunnyvale, California, campuses on April 16, 2024.

“Not another push! Not another line! No more cloud for Israel’s crimes!” tech workers chanted in a common area at the New York City campus.

The event, organized by No Tech for Apartheid, was a protest of Google’s Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government that has been confirmed to support Israeli military operations in Gaza. The contract is jointly held with Amazon.

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