Elon Musk causes Janitors to strike at Twitter Headquarters
According to a recent forbes article by Nicholas Reimann janitors at Twitter’s head quarters went on strike in response to wide spread layoffs five and a half weeks after the closing of the $44 billion deal to purchase the social media platform. according to the California Labor Federation, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO representing around 1,200 local unions across the state The union janitors' strike began at 6 a.m. Pacific time Monday, with picketing going on throughout the afternoon.
The state labor federation has accused Twitter of attempting to hire a new cleaning contractor even though they may have an "obligation to rehire the current service provider per county and state requirements."
Janitors with the union SEIU Local 87 demonstrated outside the offices, claiming they will be laid off at the end of the week after the tech giant did not negotiate a new contract with FlagShip, the janitorial company that employs them (FlagShip did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Forbes).
"Twitter doesn’t seem to understand how important it is to keep a clean house and respect the people who take out the trash," the California Labor Federation tweeted.
The cleaning industry responds:
A common opinion of some in the cleaning and janitorial industry is that while office hygiene, and the treatment of the human beings that perform these cleaning task should be taken a-lot more seriously at the headquarters of social media conglomerate, the forbes article lacks key information, and does not do any good for the cleaning industry based on comments in the linkedin community under several post linked to the forbes article.
Directly from the source:
One of his first moves as owner was to lay off about half the company's staff, leading to a series of lawsuits from dismissed workers who claim the billionaire did not follow proper protocol in making the job cuts. His decisions to slash jobs and significantly curtail content moderation practices appear to have spooked both major advertisers and some regulators. Chipotle, Ford and General Mills are among the companies pulling back ads, leading Musk last week to make an lucrative offer of a 100% match on up to $1 million in advertising spending in a bid to bring ad dollars back. The lax moderation tactics and abrupt moves to reinstate banned accounts like former President Donald Trump's reportedly led European officials last week to threaten a Twitter ban in the European Union if the company continues on its current path.
