---
title: "Google Just Fired Four Union Organizers"
description: "On Monday, Google fired four employees who had been working to organize the workforce and improve conditions. After making vague policy changes that made viewing off-limits documents a fireable offense, the company reportedly targeted employees seen as important for unionizing efforts, according to a Medium blog penned by the team that organized Google’s […]"
date: "2019-11-26"
modified: "2019-11-26"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-fired-union-organizers"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Google"
tags:
  - "Google"
  - "the digest"
  - "union"
---

# Google Just Fired Four Union Organizers

![Google fired four employees who were helping lead the workforce's push to organize and form a union, prompting accusations of deliberate union-busting.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/google-fired-union-organizers.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Photo Illustration by Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Targeted Strike

On Monday, Google fired four employees who had been working to organize the workforce and improve conditions.

After making vague policy changes that made viewing off-limits documents a fireable offense, the company reportedly targeted employees seen as important for unionizing efforts, [according to a *Medium* blog](<https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/googles-next-moonshot-union-busting-7bd2784dc690>) penned by the team that organized [Google's walkout](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-employees-protest-retaliation>) last year. It's a troubling sign that such a powerful corporation, after [abandoning its branding](<https://futurism.com/google-dont-be-evil>) as the ethical tech giant, is working to nip a worker's movement in the bud.

## Round Two

Some of Google's contractor workforce [unionized with United Steelworkers](<https://www.wired.com/story/google-contractors-voted-unionize/>) back in September, a move that Google also fought at the time. Now, it seems intent on preventing the same thing happening among its staffers.

"With these firings, Google is ramping up its illegal retaliation against workers engaging in protected organizing," reads the blog. "This is classic union busting dressed up in tech industry jargon, and we won’t stand for it."

**READ MORE:** [Google’s Next Moonshot: Union Busting](<https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/googles-next-moonshot-union-busting-7bd2784dc690>) \[*Medium*\]

**More on unions:** *[Judge Forces Elon Musk to Hire Back Fired Tesla Union Organizer](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/judge-forces-elon-musk-tesla-union>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

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