https://www.yahoo.com/news/big-turnout-googlers-headquarters-global-protest-201456335.html
Yahoo!
Big turnout of 'Googlers' at headquarters in global protest
AFP November 1, 2018
San Francisco (AFP) - Google employees poured out of buildings at the company's Mountain View campus, filling courtyards and patios in solidarity with co-workers who staged similar demonstrations at offices in countries around the world to protest the company's handling of sexual misconduct
Demonstrators streamed across the Mountain View campus, some waving signs bearing messages such as "Time's Up Tech" and "Happy to quit for $90 million - no sexual harassment required."
The turnout in California was the final stage of a global walkout that began in Asia and spread to Google offices in Europe.
Some protestors chalked statements such as "Not OK Google" in large letters on pavement as television news helicopters circled overhead.
Images, video and comments were being shared and tweeted with hashtag #GoogleWalkout so heavily from smartphones that some lamented on Twitter that telecom coverage was getting overloaded at the campus.
"Not only will these women and men change the Tech Bro Culture in Silicon Valley, they're going to change the world!" Democratic California congresswoman Jackie Speier tweeted.
"The worldwide #GoogleWalkout is another defining moment in our fight to change Corp America’s toxic culture."
The walkout lasted more than an hour, according to updates on Twitter.
"Earlier this week, we let Googlers know that we are aware of the activities planned for today and that employees will have the support they need if they wish to participate," Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said in response to an AFP inquiry.
"We are taking in all their feedback so we can turn these ideas into action."
The protest took shape after Google said last week that it had fired 48 employees in the past two years -- including 13 senior executives -- as a result of allegations of sexual misconduct, citing "an increasingly hard line" on inappropriate conduct.
That statement came after The New York Times reported last week that a senior Google employee, Android creator Andy Rubin, received an exit package worth $90 million as he faced allegations of misconduct, and that Google had covered up other claims of sexual harassment. Rubin has denied the allegations and claimed he was the victim of a "smear campaign."
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: July 29, 2006
When Tavener showed me that video back in July 2002, I told Vince later that I wanted to kick his ass but it would as easy as beating up a little girl and I didn't find any thing comforting about that.
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https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/trespassers.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 11:39 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Thursday, November 01, 2018
Trespassers
From 7/29/2006 ( referenced in text above here: from my private journal as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/1/2018 is 4478 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/5/1978 ( premiere US TV movie "The Frightening Feeling You're Going to Die" ) is 4478 days
From 12/7/1998 ( my first day working as a full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation while as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) To 11/1/2018 is 7269 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/27/1985 ( premiere US film "Invasion U.S.A." ) is 7269 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 11/1/2018 is 8770 days
8770 = 4385 + 4385
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/4/1977 ( premiere US TV series "The Incredible Hulk" ) is 4385 days
From 10/29/1941 ( premiere US film "All That Money Can Buy" ) To 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 19357 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/1/2018 is 19357 days
From 9/15/1949 ( premiere US TV series "The Lone Ranger"::series premiere episode "Enter The Lone Ranger" ) To 9/14/2002 ( at Overlake hospital in Bellevue Washington State the announced birth of Phoebe Gates the daughter of Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and Microsoft Bill Gates the 100% female gender as born to brother-sister sibling parents and Microsoft Bill Gates the Soviet Union prostitute and Phoebe Gates is the biological offspring of Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and William Gates II ) is 19357 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/1/2018 is 19357 days
From 7/16/2004 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate: Atlantis" ) To 11/1/2018 is 5221 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/18/1980 ( premiere US TV series episode "Insight"::"Chicken" ) is 5221 days
Other post by me on this topic: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/trespassers.html
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/perverts-protected-by-their-scum-bag.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-workers-have-right-walk-out-it-s-not-fist-n930356
NBC News
Google workers have the right to walk out — but it's not the First Amendment that protects them
Free speech is protected against government action, but workers are protected by something else when they speak out about working conditions.
Nov. 2, 2018 / 8:18 AM PDT
By Danny Cevallos
Google employees may find safety in numbers after staging a worldwide walkout on Thursday — but they could be surprised to learn that it’s not the First Amendment that would protect them from corporate discipline.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the government from abridging the freedom of speech. Similarly, the state constitution of California, where Google’s headquarters is located, provides, “Every person may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of this right.”
Generally, however, an infringement on speech or a protest can only be unconstitutional if it is fairly attributable to the government. Employees of private companies are often “at will,” which means they can be terminated for no cause. Sometimes workers have a written employment agreement with their employer which spells out acceptable conduct and terms of employment, but often this language favors the employer over the employee. Either way, a person's free speech rights under the federal and state constitutions are not infringed unless there is state action.
This does not mean the Google employees are completely unprotected or that they can be fired for their walkout.
In passing the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, Congress intended to protect private employees when they organize collectively for their mutual aid and protection in the workplace. The NLRA provides that “employees shall have the right to ... engage in ... concerted activities for the purpose of … mutual aid or protection.”
The law makes it an unfair labor practice for the employer to interfere with or restrain employees in the exercise of these guaranteed rights. In fact, federal law “expressly foster[s]” a “freewheeling use of the written and spoken word” for employees in certain situations, according to the Supreme Court.
Both union and non-union employees have a right to act for the purpose of "mutual aid or protection." This includes efforts to improve their conditions of employment, even if they use methods outside the immediate employee-employer relationship.
Federal courts have acknowledged that employees who jointly participate in a walkout to present job-related grievances to management are engaged in protected concerted activity, regardless of whether or not the employees are members of a union.
But, if a walkout stops production and is only for the purpose of protesting over a supervisor, it might not be protected by the NLRA.
If Google employees had been only walking out to, say, protest the hiring of a particular supervisor, courts have indicated this might not be protected activity. The choice of supervisors is a management prerogative, one that employees don’t automatically have a statutory right to “bargain” about.
On the other hand, a walkout because that same supervisor's conduct is impairing the conditions of employment would be protected concerted activity.
It’s possible that the Google protests reacting to company action or inaction in dealing with supervisors are unprotected, depending on the specific reason for the walkout.
The law has to walk a line: protect employees’ right to advocate for their protection while also preventing employees from going too far and vetoing any management decision just because it’s unpopular. In the case of managers ignoring complaints or permitting sexual misconduct to occur, courts have suggested that this kind of conduct addresses workplace conditions.
A walkout for this reason is likely protected by federal labor law, even if the First Amendment offers no protection.
IMDb.com: The Frightening Feeling You're Going to Die (1978) (TV) USA:5 February 1978
Stargate Atlantis - Rising - television series premiere episode part 1 and 2 - Friday 16 July 2004 (DVD extended version)
Episode Summary
The discovery of an outpost, left behind by the Ancients in the most unlikely of places, leads a new Stargate team to the distant Pegasus galaxy. Once there, they discover a planet of humans being decimated by a terrible alien race know as the Wraith.
(from internet transcript)
WRAITH HALL.
WRAITH Queen: What do you call yourself?
SUMNER: Colonel Marshall Sumner, United States Marine Corps.
WRAITH Queen: So little fear. Is it valour ... or ignorance?
SUMNER: We travelled through the Stargate as peaceful explorers.
WRAITH Queen: You must eat, yet you resist your hunger. Why?
SUMNER: Why have you taken my people prisoner?
WRAITH Queen: You trespassed upon our feeding ground.
SUMNER: Feeding ground?
- posted by Kerry Burgess 08:40 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 03 November 2018
