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    1. Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 17 Dec 2019
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      New: another Google worker says that she was fired for supporting union organizing efforts within the company and has filed a complaint with the NLRBhttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/google-union-kathryn-spiers/ …

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      Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 17 Dec 2019
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      here’s a copy of an internal email google sent to its employees about firing kathryn. for context, kathryn said she wasn’t aware of these policies and google hasn’t yet pointed me to where these rules previously existed (i’ve asked)pic.twitter.com/qtzO8e5tXt

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        2. Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 17 Dec 2019
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          Ali Breland Retweeted SophieJusticeWarrior

          people really don't know what rule google was referencing and they have yet to provide any info on how there was any precedent or actual policy in place prior to their firing kathrynhttps://twitter.com/SophieJusticeW/status/1206978482665902080 …

          Ali Breland added,

          “We dismissed an employee who abused privileged access to modify an internal security tool,” said Google spokeswoman Katie Hutchison. “This was a serious violation.”
          SophieJusticeWarrior @SophieJusticeW
          https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/17/google-fires-fifth-engineer-who-alleges-retaliation-union-activity/ … It was literally @eiais's job to work on this tool. She did not "abuse privileged access", she went through normal channels to do a part of her job - making sure Google employees follow policy and don't misuse external resources. pic.twitter.com/W3rBc80JsP
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        3. Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 17 Dec 2019
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          Ali Breland Retweeted Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

          extremely useful context from former google employee @lizthegrey on how these processes workhttps://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1207010820896546816 …

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          Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Verified account @lizthegrey
          So to briefly talk about the code review process at Google: there's OWNERS for each piece of code. Anyone who is in the code's OWNERS can submit changes with review from at least one other engineer (not necessarily OWNER). Anyone outside OWNERS has to get approval from an OWNER.
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        2. Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)‏Verified account @lizthegrey 17 Dec 2019
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          Just to contextualize this:https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1207010820896546816 …

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          Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Verified account @lizthegrey
          So to briefly talk about the code review process at Google: there's OWNERS for each piece of code. Anyone who is in the code's OWNERS can submit changes with review from at least one other engineer (not necessarily OWNER). Anyone outside OWNERS has to get approval from an OWNER.
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        3. Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 17 Dec 2019
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          thanks!

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        1. Andy‏ @Seglegs 17 Dec 2019
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          Give workers unrestricted access Workers use access Retroactively claim that access was fireable Nice way to fire anyone.

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        1. Phil Weiss‏ @philwdjjd 17 Dec 2019
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          “It’s not because of that thing that it’s not allowed to be” is always a sign of good behavior. @NLRB

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        2. iandanforth - Berlin‏ @iandanforth 17 Dec 2019
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          Cultural infection much?pic.twitter.com/WpGLHhuwXr

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        1. Aaron M Fisher‏ @aaronmfisher 17 Dec 2019
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          Pushing back against union busting is both about privacy and security, period. Also, to be clear, the pop up only displayed when a user went to the union busting website. It was not a wide push notification. Notifications are this decades soap box, get used to it Google!!

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        2. Joe Ortiz‏ @LeoJTravis10 17 Dec 2019
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          If you do, consider a Librem 5 as a replacement:https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ …

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