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Google workers protest treatment of women
Thousands of employees walk off job over mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations
NOAH BERGER I Associated Press
Workers protest against Google’s handling of sexual misconduct allegations at the company’s Mountain View,
Calif., headquarters on Thursday, Nov. 1.
BY MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - Carry
ing signs that included a mock
ing use of the company’s original
“Don’t be evil” motto, thousands
of Google employees around the
world briefly walked off the job
Thursday to protest what they said
was the tech giant’s mishandling
of sexual misconduct allegations
against executives.
From Tokyo, Singapore and Lon
don to New York, Seattle and San
Francisco, highly paid engineers
and other workers staged walkouts
of about an hour, reflecting rising
#MeToo-era frustration among
women over frat-house behavior
and other misconduct in heavily
male Silicon Valley.
In Dublin, organizers used mega
phones to address the outdoor
crowd of men and women, while in
other places, workers gathered in
packed conference rooms or lob
bies. In New York, there appeared
to be as many men as women out
in the streets, while in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, men outnumbered
women by perhaps 6 to 1.
“Time is up on sexual harass
ment!” organizer Vicki Tardif Hol
land shouted, her voice hoarse, at
a gathering of about 300 people
in Cambridge. “Time is up on sys
temic racism. Time is up on abuses
of power. Enough is enough!”
About 1,000 Google workers
in San Francisco swarmed into
a plaza in front of the city’s his
toric Ferry Building, chanting,
“Women’s rights are workers’
rights!” Thousands turned out at
Google’s Mountain View, Califor
nia, headquarters.
The demonstrations reflected
a sense among some of the 94,000
employees at Google and its par
ent Alphabet Inc. that the company
isn’t living up to its professed ide
als, as expressed in its “Don’t be
evil” slogan and its newer injunc
tion in its corporate code of con
duct : “Do the right thing.”
“We have the eyes of many
companies looking at us,” Google
employee Tanuja Gupta said in
New York. “We’ve always been a
vanguard company, so if we don’t
lead the way, nobody else will.”
The protests unfolded a week
after The New York Times detailed
allegations of sexual misconduct
about the creator of Google’s
Android software, Andy Rubin. The
newspaper said Rubin received a
$90 million severance package in
2014 after Google concluded the
accusations were credible. Rubin
has denied the allegations.
The same story also disclosed
allegations of sexual misconduct
against other executives, includ
ing Richard DeVaul, a director at
the Google-affiliated lab that cre
ated self-driving cars and internet
beaming balloons. DeVaul had
remained at the “X” lab after the
accusations surfaced a few years
ago, but resigned on Tuesday with
out severance, Google said.
In an unsigned statement, the
Google protesters called for an
end to forced arbitration in harass
ment and discrimination cases,
a practice that requires employ
ees to give up their right to sue
and often includes confidentiality
agreements.
Besides being angry about what
they contend has been lenient han
dling of executives who mistreat
women, the protest organizers
demanded more aggressive steps
for gender pay equity and more
inclusive hiring practices to reduce
the high concentration of white
and Asian men in the industry’s
best-paying programming jobs.
Trump pledges crackdown on those
seeking asylum, tent cities; is it legal?
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump said Thursday he plans to sign an
order next week that could lead to the large-
scale detention of migrants crossing the south
ern border and bar anyone caught
crossing illegally from claiming asy
lum — two legally dubious proposals
that mark his latest election-season
barrage against illegal immigration.
“This is an invasion,” Trump
declared as he has previously on a
subject shown to resonate strongly
with his base of Republican support
ers. He made his comments at the
White House in a speech that was
billed as a response to groups of migrants
walking toward the U.S. border.
He then left for an evening political rally
in Missouri, the latest in a daily series he has
scheduled leading up to next Tuesday’s elec
tions for control of Congress.
Immigration laws clear state migrants
seeking asylum may do so at or between
border crossings. But Trump said he would
limit that to official crossing points. The U.S.
also doesn’t have border space to manage the
large-scale detention of migrants, with most
facilities at capacity. But Trump said the gov
ernment would erect “massive tents.”
His announcement marked Trump’s latest
attempt to keep the issue of immi
gration front-and-center in the final
stretch before next Tuesday’s elec
tions. Notably, he said his executive
order would come next week, which
means it could be after Election
Day.
Trump also said he had told the
military mobilizing at the south
west border that if U.S. troops face
rock-throwing migrants, they should
react as though the rocks were “rifles.”
The exact rules for the use of force by
military police and other soldiers who will
be operating near the border have not been
disclosed, but in all cases troops have the
right of self-defense. At any rate, they are
not expected to be in positions where any
one trying to storm across the border would
quickly come in contact with them.
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