The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint against Google Wednesday alleging that the company illegally spied on and then fired two employees for organizing.<\/p>\n
The complaint says that Google violated labor laws by surveilling and terminating Laurence Berland and Kathryn Spiers, both former engineers at the company’s San Francisco office, in 2019.<\/p>\n
Berland was fired after organizing against Google’s decision to hire the notorious union-busting firm IRI Consultants. He had found out about the work with IRI from colleagues’ calendar events, which Google claimed was in violation of their policies.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoogle\u2019s hiring of IRI is an unambiguous declaration that management will no longer tolerate worker organizing,” he said in a statement Wednesday. “Management and their union busting cronies wanted to send that message, and the NLRB is now sending their own message: worker organizing is protected by law.”<\/p>\n
Spiers had created a pop-up for Google employees visiting IRI’s website that reminded them of their \u201cright to participate in protected concerted activities.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis week the NLRB issued a complaint on my behalf,” she said. “They found that I was illegally terminated for trying to help my colleagues.”<\/p>\n
Google has previously defended the firings, arguing that the two workers had violated company policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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