The Google engineer who caused a news and social media firestorm over a memo criticizing the company’s diversity efforts may get a boost from a recent appeals court win for a Cooper Tire worker fired for shouting racist insults at replacement workers during a strike.
Google fired James Damore for the memorandum, in which he argued that conservative viewpoints are censored at the company and said the gender inequality in software engineering work can be explained largely by biological differences. He filed a National Labor Relations Board complaint against the company Aug. 7.
The Eighth Circuit one day later agreed ...
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