> Google fired the workers in 2019 after they organized against the company’s contracts with immigration detention agencies.

Wooow. That was at the height of ICE being shown as deeply corrupt and racist child abusers. (They still are, but it hasn't been used as a stick to beat Biden with because 'reasons').

>the NLRB issued a federal complaint against Google for illegally firing and surveilling the four software engineers

Illegal surveillance. By fucking Google. Scary scary shit.

> Kara Silverstein, Google’s human resources director said that she “like[d] the idea” of the op-ed, but that it should be executed so that “there would be no fingerprints and not Google specific.”

So, she knew how uncool/illegal that looks. Schwifty.

Looking at how other outlets have covered this - looking at you, NYT - it's pretty fucking awful that the best coverage is coming from Vice.