Google broke US law by firing workers behind protests, complaint says

National Labor Relations Board files complaint over surveillance and termination after year-long inquiry

Google violated US labor laws when it surveilled and terminated workers who organized employee protests, according to a complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The complaint was filed on Wednesday following a year-long investigation launched by terminated employees who filed a petition with the board in 2019, after hundreds of Google employees carried out internal protests and public demonstrations against Google's work with US Customs and Border Protection. This came after a huge walkout in 2018 over the company's handling of sexual harassment allegations. The Communications Workers of America union helped author the workers' charges.