Google firing the ‘Thanksgiving Four’ backfires spectacularly
Google says the four violated security policies; the Tech Workers Coalition says this is a case of union-busting meant to scare workers
26 November 2019 - 15:08
San Francisco — On Monday, Google fired four employees on the grounds that they had violated data security policies, but the tech titan was accused of persecuting them for trying to unionise staff.
The dismissals of the quartet — dubbed the “Thanksgiving Four” on social media — deepened staff-management tensions at a company once seen as a paradigm of Silicon Valley freedoms but now embroiled in numerous controversies...
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