Posted on 12/07/2022 5:32:03 AM PST by Red Badger
Janitors hired to clean at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California, protested after 20 employees were fired, so the social media company bought by Elon Musk fired the rest of them.
Critics of Musk are outraged that he would fire the workers just weeks before Christmas.
“Our cleaning contractor at Twitter was told by Twitter that they are cutting the contract,” said Olga Miranda, union president for the janitors. “So we have about 48 families out of work. And it just so happens that it's three weeks before Christmas.”
A representative from SEIU Local 87 told the New Republic that 20 janitors were told on Friday that they were fired with no notice and that they were fighting for wages, "benefits and job protections."
By Monday, the union organized a strike with the rest of the janitors against the firings, saying the company was violating local cleaning regulations. They also said they were locked out of the building.
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On Tuesday, Twitter cancelled the contract with the janitors, leading his critics to claim that he was in violation of local laws.
The unemployed janitors are protesting in front of Twitter headquarters while holding signs that read “proud to be union” and “justice for janitors."
The California Labor Federation, which represents 1,200 California unions, decried the action in a statement on its Twitter account.
“Twitter doesn’t seem to understand how important it is to keep a clean house and respect the people who take out the trash,” it said.
Other employees fired from Twitter said they were filing lawsuits against Elon Musk after he insensitively fired them and caused so much pain and anguish.
"The way Elon Musk executed the layoffs was really inhumane," said former employee Amir Shevat. "At a certain point I was told that as a manager that I might felt fired if I just gathered my team just to answer questions."
"He chose to fire so many of us during a difficult time period in the tech industry," said Adrian Trejo Nunez, another former employee.
They are suing for severance packages that were promised before Musk's acquisition of Twitter but which were not delivered to the fired employees.
Here's more about the janitors' protests at Twitter:
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I’ll take “People Without a Clue for $50, Art”.
Good
HAHAHAHA!!!!
Never understood how unskilled labor thinks they have the leverage to strike.
Wow. Good for Elon. Don’t want the job? We can probably find someone else.
Musk will hire a janitorial company at half the cost......................
FAFO
This foreshadows fear and loathing at the United Auto Workers union that parasitically exists at GM.
There are rumors that Elon Musk will buy GM. That will be an existential event for the criminal members of the UAW.
My first real job in High School was janitor at the Krystal on Main Street......................
They can starve.
Feels like when I protested against mom when I was pretty little cuz I thought she should clean my room. Guess who won that one.
Well, in a vertically integrated organization, Musk will buy or form a Janitorial company.
He needs janitors at all his facilities
They don’t need leverage when they think Deep State will fix it for them.
What they have yet to learn is that what Deep State giveth with one hand, it can taketh it away with the other.
If so, it pretty much blew up in their faces. If they want to blame someone, they should blame their union managers for choosing poorly.
Nah. They had a clue. They wanted unemployment.
Back when Main was full of strip clubs and porno theaters?
They are not Musk’s employees. They work for a contractor:
““Our cleaning contractor at Twitter was told by Twitter that they are cutting the contract,” said Olga Miranda”
Notice and layoff benefits fall to the contractor, not Twitter.
Former employees suing for severance? Aren’t they getting 4 months pay?
A cleaning lady named Olga. Whoda thought?
I think when you name your kid Olga, you’ve pretty much set their path…
He didn’t fire anyone. He canceled a contract. If the contractor wants to employ them somewhere else they can. And they can get severance as well. This article is crap.
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