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NATION East Oregonian Page 6A Friday, November 2, 2018 Federal health care website gets up and running after slow start Google employees leave work to protest treatment of women By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO — Carrying signs that included a mocking use of the compa- ny’s original “Don’t be evil” motto, thousands of Goo- gle employees around the world briefly walked off the job Thursday to protest what they said was the tech giant’s mishandling of sexual mis- conduct allegations against executives. From Tokyo, Singapore and London to New York, Seattle and San Francisco, highly paid engineers and other workers staged walk- outs of about an hour, reflect- ing rising #MeToo-era frus- tration among women over frat-house behavior and other misconduct in heavily male Silicon Valley. In Dublin, organizers used megaphones to address the outdoor crowd of men and women, while in other places, workers gathered in packed conference rooms or lobbies. In New York, there appeared to be as many men as women out in the streets, while in Cambridge, Massachusetts, men outnumbered women by perhaps 6 to 1. “Time is up on sexual harassment!” organizer Vicki Tardif Holland shouted, her voice hoarse, at a gathering of about 300 people in Cam- bridge. “Time is up on sys- temic racism. Time is up on abuses of power. Enough is enough!” About 1,000 Google work- ers in San Francisco swarmed into a plaza in front of the city’s historic Ferry Building, chanting, “Women’s rights are workers’ rights!” Thou- sands turned out at Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters. The demonstrations reflected a sense among some of the 94,000 employ- ees at Google and its parent By RICARDO ALONSO- ZALDIVAR Associated Press AP Photo/Mae Anderson A Google employee holds a sign reading “Don’t be evil” as employees walked off the job on Thursday in New York in a protest against what they said is the tech com- pany’s mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations against executives. Alphabet Inc. that the com- pany isn’t living up to its pro- fessed ideals, as expressed in its “Don’t be evil” slogan and its newer injunction in its cor- porate code of conduct: “Do the right thing.” “We have the eyes of many companies looking at us,” Google employee Tanuja Gupta said in New York. “We’ve always been a vanguard company, so if we don’t lead the way, nobody else will.” The protests unfolded a week after The New York Times detailed allegations of sexual misconduct about the creator of Google’s Android software, Andy Rubin. The newspaper said Rubin received a $90 million sev- erance package in 2014 after Google concluded the accu- sations were credible. Rubin has denied the allegations. The same story also dis- closed allegations of sex- ual misconduct against other executives, including Rich- ard DeVaul, a director at the Google-affiliated lab that cre- ated self-driving cars and internet-beaming balloons. DeVaul had remained at the “X’’ lab after the accusations surfaced a few years ago, but resigned on Tuesday without severance, Google said. In an unsigned statement, the Google protesters called for an end to forced arbitra- tion in harassment and dis- crimination cases, a practice that requires employees to give up their right to sue and often includes confidentiality agreements. Besides being angry about what they contend has been lenient handling of executives who mistreat women, the protest organizers demanded more aggressive steps for gender pay equity and more inclusive hiring practices to reduce the high concentration of white and Asian men in the industry’s best-paying pro- gramming jobs. Women account for 31 percent of Google’s employ- ees worldwide, and it’s lower for leadership roles. The numbers are similar else- where in Silicon Valley. “I have seen friends get hurt and have their careers destroyed by this, not just at Google but everywhere,” protester J.J. Wanda, a male software engineer, said in Mountain View. “We need to show that time’s up.” In a statement, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company is reviewing all the “constructive ideas” from employees to improve poli- cies and practices. Beyond Google, Face- book has faced criticism over pay inequity and discrimi- nation. The appearance of a Facebook executive behind Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during his confir- mation hearings also caused rifts inside the company. As Thursday dawned, organizers had predicted about 1,500 employees would participate in the walk- outs, mostly women. But the numbers appeared to exceed that, based on media accounts and images posted on the pro- test’s Twitter account. The protests at Google are the latest sign that frustrations among women are reaching a boiling point, said Stepha- nie Creary, a professor who specializes in workplace and diversity issues at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania’s Whar- ton School. WASHINGTON — The federal website where con- sumers can get health insur- ance under the Affordable Care Act was up and run- ning Thursday after a slow start as sign-up season for 2019 opened days before the midterm elections. During early morn- ing hours, people access- ing the site were directed to a screen that said work was underway. A recording at the HealthCare.gov call cen- ter conveyed a similar mes- sage. Things seemed to be running normally by about 9 a.m. EDT. With health care a major issue in Tuesday’s elections, this sign-up season under the Trump administration is getting close scrutiny. In earlier years, techni- cal problems with the site created major headaches for the Obama administra- tion. Some Democrats cited HealthCare.gov’s meltdown after its 2013 debut as one of the reasons they lost con- trol of the Senate the follow- ing year. Since those initial prob- lems were fixed, the website serving people in 39 states has worked fairly smoothly, first under President Barack Obama and now under Don- ald Trump. The rest of the states and the District of Columbia run their own sign-ups. A spokesperson for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Thursday morning that HealthCare.gov was open for business. 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