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As they should. And even if you are on Israel's side, if you agree that these workers deserved to be fired for this, imagine if they got fired for supporting Israel in some other company.
I postulate there is a lot more to this story than is being told. It was what, 29 employees and later more who were fired? I don't think this is a simple case of people being idiots.
Your example has occurred in dozens of companies, but people just don't care.
Workers have essentially zero right to protest on company time on company property and disrupting work.
It would be another thing if, to address your counter-example, an employer went through everyone's social media and systematically fired everyone who made the "wrong" public stance in an avenue that has nothing to do with the job (still legal probably, but much shittier), but using your own work time to interrupt business operations isn't going to be tolerated pretty much anywhere.
Again, if these employees had been protesting outside the company offices on their own time and were fired for that, I'd be more sympathetic, but that's not what happened here.
What would you call a strike?
An extremely specific and highly regulated type of work action has a lot of rules in order to legally be protected.
For instance:
https://www.nlrb.gov/strikes
Especially at the level of working for Google, employment is a voluntary agreement, not a right. If the employees find it unconscionable to work for Google, the correct thing to do is to, you know, not work for Google.
Strikes only have so many restrictions because the US government would like to effectively outlaw them without appearing to have outlawed them.
Ding ding ding. It’s the same reason general strikes are outlawed. For the unaware, a general strike is when workers go on strike to protest something not specific to their job. For instance, if rail workers are striking, a general strike would be Google employees going on strike in solidarity.
The government saw how effective general strikes can be, because it puts an immense amount of external pressure on the company being struck. To use the above example, now it’s not just railway workers pressuring the rail company to change. It’s also Google (and any other companies being affected by a general strike) pressuring the rail company to change.
It worked wonders in parts of Europe. It’s a large part of why large parts of Europe have decent worker protections. In fact it worked so well that the US government banned it. Solidarity strikes are outright illegal in the US, because the government knows it works.
Are you making a descriptive or normative claim in your first paragraph?
They got fired for protesting on company property during working hours. They refused to leave an executive's office when asked.
Iirc they were in a common area in NYC