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Google employee raises $100,000 in pledges for strike fund

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A prominent Google employee said today she had raised $100,000 in pledges for a strike fund, following more news about the company’s controversial plans for China.

Earlier today, The Intercept published a new report about Google’s plans to build a censored search engine in China. The report detailed executives’ response to internal dissent about the project, and included concerns from engineers who said they felt the security and privacy process had been sidelined.

In response, Liz Fong-Jones, a Google worker and employee advocate, said on Twitter that Google employees should consider how workers would respond if executives overrode recommendations from the safety and privacy team. “Google’s S&P teams must have our backs,” she wrote.

The considerations, she wrote, should include “thinking about what a strike fund would look like and what a mass resignation mutual support fund would look like, especially to provide cover to folks on H1B visas.” She offered to match the first $100,000 raised, and in only a few hours, she said $100,000 had been pledged.

“Okay, the full $100k has been raised,” Fong-Jones wrote. “Watch this space for more details once I’ve spoken to legal counsel and more experienced labor organizers.”

Google has been roiled by employee dissent in recent weeks, and not only over the China project. Earlier this month, more than 20,000 employees walked out to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment following a bombshell New York Times report. In response, the company agreed to some, but not all, of the workers’ demands. But employees creating a strike fund suggests workers at the company are from finished organizing.



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