Google fires 20 more employees over protest against Project Nimbus contract

Following the termination of 28 employees last week due to sit-in protests at Google’s offices in New York and California, the company fired over 20 additional employees, according to a report in the Hindustan Times (HT).

The employees staged protests against Google’s collaboration with the Israeli government on “Project Nimbus”, a $1.2 billion cloud computing initiative.

The HT reported that nine protesters were arrested by the police after they occupied Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office for over eight hours. The sit-ins in New York and California’s Sunnyvale were led by “No Tech For Apartheid”, which has been organising Google employees against Project Nimbus since 2021.