Elon Musk’s Twitter has fired the entire 48-member janitor contract staff at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, after they protested in solidarity with 20 of their former colleagues who were fired last week.
This came after negotiations for a new contract with Flagship, the company responsible for contracting the janitors, fell through. The last day of the janitor’s contract is Dec. 9.
On Dec. 2, after they demanded more wages, “benefits, and job protections,” 20 janitors were fired without notice during the contract dispute, a representative from SEIU (Service Employees International Union) Local 87 told The New Republic.
Twitter then canceled the other janitors’ contracts on Dec. 6 in response to the solidarity protests….