Google pushed to curb employee protests while claiming to support walkouts, documents show

Google is under fire from its own employees after it asked the US government to change rules which allow staff to plan activism on their work email accounts.  The Silicon Valley tech giant urged the National Labor Relations Board, the US agency which enforces labour laws, to roll back rules which stop companies punishing activist employees who form unions or circulate petitions on workplace communication systems, documents obtained by Bloomberg show. Last November thousands of Google e