Timeline
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October 2023.
Anti-Nimbus petition circulates internally at Google.
Google employees circulate a petition urging Google to discontinue Project Nimbus, a project that provides cloud computing services to the Israeli government and military. This is the first internal political action the company has seen since facing heightened scrutiny for their role in the renewed wave of violence in Palestine.
Google investigates Muslim employee.
In response, Google conducts an HR investigation into a single participating employee – a Muslim, whom they accuse of terrorism. No non-Muslim employees are investigated.
November 2023.
No Tech for Apartheid condemns Google in open letter.
Conditions inside Google continue to deteriorate for Muslim and Arab employees following the HR investigation and terrorism accusation. The tech worker activist coalition No Tech for Apartheid publishes an open letter condemning Google’s “internal culture of hate, abuse, and retaliation towards Muslim, Palestinian, and Arab employees”. They accuse Google managers’ of leveraging their rank to “question, report, and attempt to get fired Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian Googlers who express sympathy with the plight of the besieged Palestinian people”.
March 2024.
Muslim employees are doxxed.
Two Muslim employees are doxxed by The Daily Wire after having personal information leaked by their own colleagues at Google. Google takes no action to protect, defend, or support the doxxed employees, compounding the hostile work environment created in the preceding months and highlighting the unequal consideration employee safety is given on the basis of religion.
Google’s discimination is thoroughly documented.
Activists within Google create a document outlining the harassment and discrimination experienced by Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim employees entitled “Google Disregards Worker Safety”. They discuss how to escalate their unheard demands and protect their marginalized colleagues.
April 2024.
After exhausting internal organizing strategies with no signs of progress, employees stage historic in-person protests at corporate headquarters.
Google employees engage in a day of action in New York, New York and Sunnyvale, California. They peacefully protest the discriminatory treatment of Arab and Muslim employees at Google, as well as Google’s material support of the Israeli military. They distribute educational literature, host rallies outside of offices, and stage peaceful, nondisruptive sit-ins in spaces available to them as Google employees.
Google retaliates by firing roughly 50 peaceful protesters.
Less than 5 days later, organizers and activists are illegally fired from Google as a direct result of their participation in the day of action. No counterprotesters face any disciplinary action.
May 2024.
Former employees take action.
A group of fired employees files a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), formally accusing Google of engaging in unfair labor practices. Some individuals also file Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaints.
November 2024.
The National Labor Relations Board opens the case and begins investigating.
February 2025.
The California Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issues right to sue letters to some of the fired employees on the West Coast.
April 2025.
A group of fired employees formally files a civil suit against Google.
June 2025.
Google promptly files a request to dismiss the newly formed civil case. It will later be denied.
September 2025.
Google’s request for dismissal is denied.
Google’s request for dismissal is heard and denied, allowing the case to continue. This marks the first time that a protest of this nature has proceeded to this level in the court system.
October 2025.
The civil suit grows.
Former employees from New York elect to end their EEOC investigation early and join the wider EEOC lawsuit, adding five additional plaintiffs to the case.
January 2026.
The NLRB case ends.
The NLRB announces they will dismiss the case, but allow the group to voluntarily withdraw. This marks an end to the NLRB case.
January 2028.
The trial is scheduled to take place.
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