Google UK in Internal Turmoil as Anti-Israel DeepMind Staff Unionise <\/p>\n
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Bad times over at big tech giant Google, whose staff at AI division DeepMind are in the process of unionising with the antediluvian dinosaurs at the Communication Workers Union. Nothing to do with employment rights, rather due to DeepMind\u2019s contracts with Israel\u2026<\/p>\n
Top engineers at DeepMind \u2013 many of whom earn some of the biggest salaries in UK tech \u2013 are collectivising over the \u2018ethics\u2019 at Google, according to a CWU figure, with one engineer accusing his employer of \u2018sacrificing morals for greed\u2019. According to reports over the weekend, those involved with the \u201cunionisation drive\u201d also cited a $1.2 billion cloud computing agreement between Google and Amazon and the Israeli Government as an issue for the 300 employees now apparently seeking to join the CWU. Five employees have reportedly already quit their roles, with the contract and the changed AI pledge cited as the reason\u2026<\/p>\n
Last May, around 200 Google DeepMind workers wrote to company bosses calling on them to drop contracts with military organisations, citing reports about Google\u2019s contract with Israel\u2019s Ministry of Defence. Should Google DeepMind recognise the unionisation attempts, the staff will try to derail defence deals \u2013 or strike. Over in the US, when Google staff staged a similar sit-in over contracts with Israel last year, Google fired them. Did the job\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google UK in Internal Turmoil as Anti-Israel DeepMind Staff Unionise mdi-fullscreen Bad times over at big tech giant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,867,837,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-58050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114416847660320312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}