Google Settles Year Long Lawsuit With Current, Former Employees

  • Alphabet Inc's GOOG GOOGL Google settled with six current and former employees in a 2021 case represented by the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, Reuters reports. The terms of the settlement remained undisclosed.
  • The case concerned Google's actions against workers who were among a larger group protesting its cloud technology relationship with U.S. immigration authorities in 2019.
  • Google had allegedly interrogated workers and fired some of them.
  • The employees blamed Google for unfairly stifling worker organizing in a case stemming from potential sales of its cloud technology to U.S. immigration authorities.
  • Weeks of hearings were interrupted pending dispute resolution over whether the NLRB could push Google legal chief Kent Walker to testify.
  • The emotionally exhausted employees from fighting Google had to weigh against wanting to reveal additional "juicy" evidence about Project Vivian, Google's effort to quash worker activism.
  • Price Action: GOOG shares closed lower by 0.24% at $2,729.57 on Monday.
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