Google fires employee who protested company's work with US border patrol
by Julia Carrie Wong from Technology | The Guardian on (#4VNR9)
Three other Google staffers were reportedly fired on Monday, prompting accusations of retaliation
On Friday, about 200 employees rallied outside Google's office in San Francisco to demand that two suspended worker activists be reinstated. By Monday, at least one of the suspended workers said she had been fired, with reports that three other Google staffers had also been let go.
Rebecca Rivers, a software engineer at Google who had been involved with internal protests against Google's work with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), announced her firing on Twitter on Monday afternoon. Three other Google staffers were also fired on Monday, according to an internal company memo obtained by Bloomberg.
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