ALBAWABA - Several Pro Palestinian Google employees who were sacked amid internal protests over the company’s ‘Project Nimbus’ deal with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with labour authorities, as reported by The Washington Post, alleging their labour rights were broken by the tech giant.
The complaint states that around 50 employees were wrongfully dismissed or put on administrative leave earlier this month after workers protested at Google headquarters in New York and Sunnyvale, California in opposition of the $1.2 billion deal dubbed Project Nimbus, which delivers artificial intelligence technologies to the Israeli government.
The Nimbus Project is a cloud service that enables data storage, collection, and the prediction of potential data and motifs. The contract in question was signed by Google and the Israeli government in April 2021 in conjunction with Amazon.
The allegation was filed with the National Labor Relations Board, an independent federal body that safeguards the rights of private sector workers, according to a representative for No Tech for Apartheid, the organization that arranged the demonstrations.
Israel's ongoing aggression on Gaza has resulted in the killing of more than 34,535 Palestinians of whom are innocent children. Additionally, at least 77,084 are injured from the continued attacks and 27 children are malnutrition victims, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
