Organizers of worldwide Google walkout lay out list of demands

Googlers in London.
REUTERS/Toby Melville

• The organizers of the worldwide Google walkout have
  released a list of their demands for the tech giant.
• The walkout is in response to Google’s handling of
  sexual misconduct claims, particularly the case involving
  Android creator Andy Rubin and the reported $90 million exit
  package Google paid him after he left the company following a
  sexual misconduct investigation. 
• Employees at more than 60% of worldwide Google offices
  will be participating in the walkout, the organizers
  said. 

The organizers of the worldwide Google walkout have now made
their demands clear.

In response to Google’s handling of sexual misconduct claims,
employees at more than 60% of worldwide Google offices are

participating in a protest walkout on November 1. The
walkouts were partially prompted by the recent
New York Times article that revealed that Google paid Andy
Rubin, the “father of Android,” a $90 million exit package after
internal sexual misconduct claims were filed against him. 

The walkout organizers wrote an
article in The Cut, in which they provided their real names
and their demands for Google following the walkout. The
organizers credited with writing the piece are Claire
Stapleton, Tanuja Gupta, Meredith Whittaker, Celie
O’Neil-Hart, Stephanie Parker, Erica
Anderson, and Amr Gaber.

Read more: 
Google
staff across the world are abandoning their desks in protest of
sexual misconduct

Here is an abbreviated version of the organizers’ list of
demands: 

• “An end to Forced Arbitration
   in
  cases of harassment and discrimination for all current and
  future employees”
• “A commitment to end pay and opportunity
  inequity”
• “A publicly disclosed sexual harassment
  transparency report”
  
• “A clear, uniform, globally inclusive process for
  reporting sexual misconduct”
• 
  “Promote the Chief Diversity Officer to answer
  directly to the CEO […] In addition, appoint an Employee
  Representative to the Board” 
  

Click here to read the walkout organizers’ full piece on The
Cut, which goes into greater depth on each of the listed
demands.