Google workers stage sit-ins to protest company’s work with Israel

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Tech workers are escalating their protests against sales to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.

SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Google employees staged sit-ins at two of the company’s offices Tuesday to protest the tech giant’s work with the Israeli government, escalating the conflict inside tech companies over theProtesters at Google’s Sunnyvale, Calif., offices entered the workspace of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Tuesday morning and have promised to stay there until the company meets their demand that Google pull out of a $1.

In early March, Google fired a worker who stood up and protested during a speech by Google’s top executive in Israel at a conference in New York. Montes, who works as a software engineer at Google-owned YouTube, acknowledged that they may be fired, too.

 

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