Google ‘arguably violated’ labor law by illegally firing three workers claims NLRB
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The acting head of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said Google arguably violated" US labor law by illegally firing three workers in 2019 amid their organizing activities, Bloomberg reports. On Wednesday, the NLRB reversed an earlier decision which had dismissed claims from Sophie Waldman, Rebecca Rivers, and Paul Duke that Google had retaliated against them for labor activism.
The employees claim Google fired them to send a message
The NLRB's general counsel's office has already accused Google of unlawfully terminating former Google workers Laurence Berland and Kathryn Spiers. Now, acting general counsel Peter Sung Ohr has asked that the complaint be amended to include Waldman, Rivers, and Duke.
Google claims that four...