{"id":1765824,"date":"2022-12-07T08:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765824"},"modified":"2022-12-07T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:03:08","slug":"janitors-union-calls-strike-outside-twitter-elon-musk-immediately-cancels-its-contract-and-fires-the-janitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/janitors-union-calls-strike-outside-twitter-elon-musk-immediately-cancels-its-contract-and-fires-the-janitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Janitors\u2019 Union Calls Strike Outside Twitter &#8211; Elon Musk Immediately Cancels Its Contract and Fires the Janitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjanitors-union-calls-strike-outside-twitter-elon-musk-immediately-cancels-its-contract-and-fires-the-janitors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765824&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMjMwNTc1MC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTcyNDExNTM2MH0.D-aoEQJAmcgSWBIlzuKPr2BJQ_YMOmqfvILJYBZWJT4\/img.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=600&#038;coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C163\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n\tJanitors 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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCritics of Musk are outraged that he would fire the workers just weeks before Christmas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cOur cleaning contractor at Twitter was told by Twitter that they are cutting the contract,\u201d said Olga Miranda, union president for the janitors. \u201cSo we have about 48 families out of work. And it just so happens that it&#8217;s three weeks before Christmas.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA representative from SEIU Local 87 <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/169313\/twitter-janitors-striking-laid-off-no-warning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the New Republic that 20 janitors were told on Friday that they were fired with no notice and that they were fighting for wages, &#8220;benefits and job protections.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBy 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. <\/p>\n<div id=\"498a5\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"846c035ce2f69ce14732bfd1b337f513\">\n<div class=\"rm-embed-container rm-embed-twitter rm-loading\"><span class=\"rm-embed-spacer rm-embed-spacer-mobile\"><\/span><span class=\"rm-embed-spacer rm-embed-spacer-desktop\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rm-embed-holder\">\n<blockquote class=\"rm-embed twitter-custom-tweet\" data-twitter-tweet-id=\"1599845784178294784\" data-partner=\"rebelmouse\">\n<p>u201cBREAKING: SEIU Local 87 Janitors at Twitter HQ went on strike at 6am today. Picket line starting at 12 noon, 1355 Market St. in San Francisco. #TakeOnTheTwitu201d<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 California Labor Federation (@California Labor Federation)<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaliforniaLabor\/status\/1599845784178294784\">1670267933<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tOn Tuesday, Twitter cancelled the contract with the janitors, leading his critics to claim that he was in violation of local laws. <\/p>\n<p>The unemployed janitors are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/dec\/6\/twitter-janitors-strike-after-company-lockout\/?utm_source=Twitter&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protesting<\/a> in front of Twitter headquarters while holding signs that read \u201cproud to be union\u201d and \u201cjustice for janitors.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The California Labor Federation, which represents 1,200 California unions, decried the action in a statement on its Twitter account. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter doesn\u2019t seem to understand how important it is to keep a clean house and respect the people who take out the trash,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaliforniaLabor\/status\/1599893137006399488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other employees fired from Twitter said they were filing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/lisa-bloom-elon-musk-twitter-new-legal-actions-lawsuit-amid-layoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuits<\/a> against Elon Musk after he insensitively fired them and caused so much pain and anguish. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way Elon Musk executed the layoffs was really inhumane,&#8221; said former employee Amir Shevat. &#8220;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.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He chose to fire so many of us during a difficult time period in the tech industry,&#8221; said Adrian Trejo Nunez, another former employee. <\/p>\n<p>They are suing for severance packages that were promised before Musk&#8217;s acquisition of Twitter but which were not delivered to the fired employees. <\/p>\n<h3>Here&#8217;s more about the janitors&#8217; protests at Twitter: <\/h3>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"><span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"16890f29a4a195a2402a521188dbb8f5\">[embedded content]<\/span><small class=\"image-media media-caption\">Janitors Locked Out of Twitter Headquarters Without Warning, Join Picket Line<\/small><small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ab0IiRUY64Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.youtube.com<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1765827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}