into Google's firing of the four workers last month and whether Google discouraged employees from organizing.
Spiers' pop-up message was inserted into a tool that notifies employees of privacy and security concerns about using non-Google tools and services, like warning employees not to upload proprietary information to Dropbox, Spiers said. The tool is managed by the platform security team, for which Spiers worked for almost two years as a security engineer.
Three hours after Spiers made the update, she was approached by members of Google’s internal security team and questioned before being placed on administrative leave, she said.
aprilaser Firing them for 'modifying an internal security tool' is how they get around the legal ramifications of union-busting. Fuck them.