Google under investigation for 'Thanksgiving Four' firings, discouraging unions.
and subsequent firing of employees Rebecca Rivers and Laurence Berland, who had been placed on sudden and indefinite administrative leave in November for allegedly sharing sensitive information.
After that, Berland and Rivers held a rally in San Francisco that drew in roughly 200 Google workers, demanding the company reinstate the two employees and stating they were placed on leave in retaliation for their activism against the companies handling of hate policies and immigration issues.four employees, including Berland and Rivers, claiming they shared confidential documents and breached security. In an internal memo, the company’s security and investigations team called it a “rare” case.
The four got public support from presidential front-runners Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who took to Twitter to bash Google for alleged “anti-union” actions. The group filed a complain on Dec. 5, addressed to Alphabet and its CEO Pichai, Google and the company’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Brin and PageJennifer Elias, CNBC
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