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Google employees will walk out on Thursday to protest company's
Days after a New York Times investigation revealed Google gave Android creator Andy Rubin a $90 million exit package despite multiple relationships with other Google staffers and accusations of sexual misconduct, some 200 employees at the search giant are planning a walkout, per BuzzFeed News.
We've reached out to Google for comment.
The walkout, or "women's walk," as it's been referred to in internal company forums, is planned for Thursday.
Following the NYT report, Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai and its vice president of people operations Eileen Naughton co-signed a company memo admitting that 48 people had been terminated at the company for sexual harassment in the past two years, 13 of which held a senior management position or higher. None of them, according to the memo, received an exit package.
[...] Rubin left Google in 2014 after an internal investigation found accusations of sexual misconduct against him to be credible. The details of his exit, however, were never disclosed. It wasn't until The Information published its own bombshell report on Rubin's wrongdoings last fall that details of his history of sexual harassment began to emerge. In the wake of The Information's story, Rubin took a leave of absence from Essential to "deal with personal matters."
See also: Google is 'bold and inspired' for coming clean about its 'Game of Thrones' culture of sex and power
Update: Alphabet exec Rich DeVaul resigns after harassment allegation
Just days after a New York Times report dug into sexual misconduct by executives within Google and its parent company Alphabet, one of the men named has resigned. Rich DeVaul was a director of Alphabet's X research division (formerly known as Google X), and cofounded Project Loon. As first reported by Axios, DeVaul resigned, and did not receive an exit package.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:20AM (1 child)
I think the rallies and marches you're looking for are called the alt-right, as thoroughly misguided as they are about a number of things. They even elected a fake president.
Your analysis here is a reaction to their identity politics that still exists within the very limited utility of identity politics. Their identity politics is a reaction to capitalist pseudo-feminist identity politics. Identity politics, of course, is rooted in the Kerner Commission Report and attempts by the bourgeoisie to distract the working and (shrinking) middle classes from the class issues that they face.
There are some things that have to do with gender. Notably, men are discouraged and face legal discrimination in child care professions and elementary school teaching positions. In child custody disputes, men also face discrimination.
Mostly, however, it's about their income. I believe this is a common factor that drives reactionary feminists such as TERFs. It's about access to healthcare with affordable health insurance. It's about the difficulties the working class faces building a secure retirement. Pensions are becoming a thing of the past. It's about workplace injuries and deaths (see WSWS' extensive coverage) along with woefully inadequate disability compensation. It's about increasingly precarious employment and the destruction of unemployment benefits. It's about austerity policies that reduce food stamp and welfare benefits to families in need.
Men in the working class are losing out. Women in the working class are losing out too. We see a wedge of distraction created by the mainstream media propagandists who turn all these things into issues of identity politics. This is particularly devastating to men, because when things such as the wage gap come up, their struggles have no voice.
So men march and rally. And they go, "Trump! Trump! Trump!"
We need to raise awareness of the class issues.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:58AM
Agreed entirely, 100%. The GOP somehow convinced the Democrats to stop appealing along class lines sometime in the 80s, which is the equivalent of ripping the engine out of their car. And for all the naysayers who say that platform won't fly outside the coasts...the union movement *began* in the Midwest. My adoptive home state of Wisconsin was one of the epicenters, and to see what it's become and is going to turn into at this rate is tragic.
Someone in the GOP, decades and decades ago, was a hell of a psyops artist...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...