Tech giant, Google, has terminated the employment of 28 workers for protesting against a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract inked by Google and Amazon with the Israeli government and its military three years ago.
Google said the protesting employees were sacked for entering and disrupting work at a few unspecified office locations.
The project called Project Numbus reportedly provides Israel with the full suite of Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence and machine learning technology.
Meanwhile, Google’s workers affiliated with the protest have also issued a statement accusing the company of valuing the contract more than its workers. In the statement posted on Medium, the workers said:
The workers added that their bosses called the police on their workers, the Nimbus Nine, who were arrested and taken into custody and punished all the workers they could associate with this action in wholesale firings, through a dragnet of in-office surveillance.
Menwhile, Google in its statement In its statement maintained that the Nimbus contract “is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.”