Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, December 17th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Well now a fifth Google employee says she has been fired from Google for what she

claims was labor organizing related activities.

Until recently,

Catherine Spears worked on the Chrome security team

and she says she no longer does so

because she added a pop-up

to an internal browser

informing her fellow employees of their labor rights,

quoting and gadget.

In a post on medium, Spears says that

Google was recently forced to publish a list by the NLRB internally

outlining the rights its employees have.

And in order to ensure that all affected employees knew about it, Spears added a pop-up notification to the

company's internal Chrome browser. Apparently this is a common practice inside the

company allowing people to share hobbies or interests with their coworkers.

In response to a request for comment,

a Google spokesperson said that it had, quote,

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