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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 17 hours ago

Nearly a thousand Google workers sign letter urging company to divest from ICE, CBP

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Nearly a thousand Google workers sign letter urging company to divest from ICE, CBP

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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 17 hours ago
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Hundreds of Google workers signed an open letter urging the company to cut its ties with ICE and CBP after rising violence.
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  • anachronist@midwest.social
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    Tomorrow’s headline: Google announces layoff of 1000 employees.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    Google employs 183,323 full-time employees. This means that nearly 0.5% of their workforce signed the letter. That’s barely enough to count as a blip to google. What kind of world is this?

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    Part of the reason you organize is so you don’t become complicit in authoritarian violence enacted by your workplace and find out only too late you are powerless to stop it alone without a union.

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      “Due to budget cuts and the outlook on bond markets, we have decided to downsize resources by 900.” - google, probably

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        Does anyone know how the 2019 NLRB probe for basically this (firing folks raising ethical concerns) has progressed/concluded?

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    STRIKE ALREADY

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