Google Walkout For Real Change

#GoogleWalkout 11/1/2018 11:10am to protest sexual harassment, misconduct, lack of transparency, and a workplace that doesn’t work for everyone. Views ≠ Google.

[Google Walkout For Real Change @GoogleWalkout]

We are privileged to share this letter:
As trans* Googlers & their allies, we feel silence is an inappropriate response to the recent events at Netflix & subsequent walkouts. In this letter, the opinions we express are entirely our own. #NetflixWalkout
https://t.co/GwoSvCTdw2

[Dr. Kate Sim @katejsim]

Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are

McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they are of worker power 🔥

Solidarity always ✊ we'll keep us safe when we fight together

[No Tech For Apartheid @NoTechApartheid]

Google is terrified of us. @Google is terrified of workers calling for accountability and transparency from our bosses. These mass, illegal firings will not stop us. They only fuel the organic growth of this movement. #NimbusNine #GoogleworkersFired

[No Tech For Tyrants @NoTech4Tyrants]

Solidarity with these 28 workers✊🏽

Google has once again shown where its priorities lie, punishing workers for speaking out.

Tech workers: read this 🧵and then take action. We each have a role to play in breaking the links of complicity powering the genocide. #StopArmingIsrael

[No Tech For Apartheid @NoTechApartheid]

This evening, Google indiscriminately fired 28 workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests. This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract..

[No Tech For Apartheid @NoTechApartheid]

BREAKING -- Google fires 28 workers in indiscriminate act of mass retaliation

https://t.co/R8JwpufBTp

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

I wonder which people we're discussing here. 🤔

[Laurence Berland @laurenceb]

I remember how Google treats its employees a bit differently... Would definitely not describe it as well or as being treated as a "complete human being".

Part of what Google does to workers is sell them this self image so when they are mistreated they will first blame themselves

[Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) @alexhanna]

Google treats you well*!

*if you're willing to toe the party line and not advocate for workers' rights, not fight against surveillance or military uses of their products, white supremacist hiring practices, and caste discrimination.

But other than that, sure.

[Athena Coalition @athenaforall]

We’re out here with 150 workers and community members at Google’s office in NYC to tell Amazon and Google:

#NoTechForApartheid

We won’t stay silent about the companies’ contracts with Israeli military and government!

Follow along ⤵️⤵️⤵️

[Ariel Koren @ariel_koko]

Hundreds of community members and workers across 4 cities came together today to tell @Google & @amazon =

#NoTechForApartheid

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Project Nimbus has got to go. Workers refuse to be silenced ‼️‼️‼️

[Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @AlphabetWorkers]

We're showing up in Seattle outside the Google SLU office today speaking out and saying #NoTechForApartheid

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Now this is Palestine solidarity.

Outside of @Google NYC with Google and Amazon tech workers opposing their cloud tech and their work upholding Israel apartheid #NoTechForApartheid

Follow @MPower_Change @jvpliveNY @athenaforall

[Nitasha Tiku @nitashatiku]

This led to the end of an era...the last Google Walkout organizer has left the building

Longtime observers say it fits a familiar pattern at Google. Women of color are asked to advocate for change. Then they’re punished for disrupting the status quo. https://t.co/bjTXElomJy

[Christian Smalls @Shut_downAmazon]

@amazon wanted to make me the face of the whole unionizing efforts against them…. welp there you go! @JeffBezos @DavidZapolsky CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 @amazonlabor We worked had fun and made History ‼️✊🏾 #ALU # ALUfortheWin welcome the 1st union in America for Amazon 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: David beats Goliath! In a historic victory, Amazon workers in Staten Island win the first U.S. Amazon union.

@AmazonLabor and workers at the JFK8 warehouse overcame extreme union-busting to make history.

[Jodi Kantor @jodikantor]

Chris Smalls, fired from Amazon almost two years ago to the day, just popped champagne outside the NLRB offices where he and his peers won one of the greatest labor victories in a generation. “To the first Amazon union in history,” he said.

[Kei Pritsker @KeiPritsker]

The moment Amazon workers at the JFK8 warehouse declared victory in their vote to form the first Amazon union in the United States

[Laurence Berland @laurenceb]

Project Vivian started *right after* the walkout. Almost immediately. Google wants to spin the firings as unrelated to unions but that distinction doesn't make sense, isn't present in law, and isn't how they saw it when they started the union suppression project. 2/

[Laurence Berland @laurenceb]

Despite Google's absurd statement in the article, these latest document snippets are extremely vindicating for me. I've said for a while that companies like Google don't actually see a difference between "unionization" and organizing around issues. 1/

[AppleTogether @AppleLaborers]

We, the Apple workers need more from our Employer.

This is what we request with #AppleWalkout