Google workers hold rally after firings for pro-Palestine protest at workplace

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THE THIRD STATE WITH AN INDOOR HEAT PROTECTION. >>> FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA. >> PALESTINE WILL BE FREE. >>> SEVERAL PROTESTERS RALLIED IN DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO TO SUPPORT GOOGLE EMPLOYEES WHO WERE FIRED BACK IN APRIL FOLLOWING A PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATION AND SIT IN. JOSE MARTINEZ WAS AT THE RALLY TODAY. THOSE WORKERS THEY SPOKE UP, THEY SPOKE OUT AND IT COST THEM THEIR JOBS. >> DOZENS OF FORMER AND CURRENT GOOGLE WORKERS GATHERED TODAY AT MARKET STREET AT THE GOOGLE OFFICERS IN SAN FRANCISCO TO RALLY AGAINST WHAT THEY CALL RETALIATION AND REPRESSION AGAINST PRO-PALESTINIAN ORGANIZING ACTION. YOU CAN SEE THEM RIGHT THERE. HOLDING SIGNS, THIS PROTEST LASTED FOR SEVERAL HOURS. THIS ALL STARTED WHEN SEVERAL DOZEN GOOGLE WORKERS PROTESTED PROJECT NIMBIS THAT IS THE CONTRACT WITH ISRAEL'S GOVERNMENT. THEY HELD SIT-INS AND PROTEST AT GOOGLE OFFICERS IN SUNNYVALE AND NEW YORK. THEY SAY IT AIDS THE ISRAELI MILITARY. BUT GOOGLE DISPUTED THAT. IN ALL, 50 WORKERS WERE FIRED. WE GOT A CHANCE TO TALK TO ONE OF THOSE WORKERS THAT GOT FIRED AND A CURRENT WORKER WHO SAYS HE CAN NOT BE SILENT. >> A NUMBER OF US ANTICIPATED THAT THERE WOULD WILL A CONSEQUENCE. WHAT WAS SPRIGS THAT SURPRISING IS THAT THOSE THAT WERE JUST WALKING BY AND JUST PARTICIPATED. >> IN GENERAL WE HAVE SEEN THAT GOOGLE IS WILLING TO CRACK DOWN QUITE WIDELY ON ANYBODY EXPRESSING DESCENT. SO, I THINK IT WOULD BE YET ANOTHER ESCALATION IF GOOGLE WERE TO CRACK DOWN JUST FOR PEOPLE SPEAKING OUT. BUT, CERTAINLY CAN NOT BE PUT OFF OF THE TABLE. AGAIN, WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO CONTINUE TO SPEAK OUT. WE WORK AT THESE COMPANIES AND SILENCE IS COMPLICITY. >> WE REACHED OUT TO GOOGLE FOR COMMENT REGARDING THIS SPECIFIC RALLY BUT HAVE NOT HEARD BACK. BUT, BACK IN MAY THE COMPANY SAID IN A STATEMENT THAT THIS IS A VERY CLEAR CASE OF EMPLOYEES DISRUPTING AND OCCUPYING WORK SPACES AND MAKING OTHER EMPLOYEES FEEL THREATENED AND UNSAFE. WE CONFIRMED EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO WAS TERMINATED WAS INVOLVED IN DISRUPTION INSIDE OF OUR BUILDINGS. OF COURSE, THOSE FIRED WORKERS THAT FILED COMPLAINTS WITH THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD BACK IN MAY IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET THOSE JOBS BACK. >> ARE THEY OPTIMISTIC THEY MIGHT GET THEIR JOBS BACK SOMETHING. >> Reporter: THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION. WE ARE TRYING TO
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Channel: KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA
Views: 3,196
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Length: 3min 8sec (188 seconds)
Published: Thu Jun 13 2024
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