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A catapult against Twitter's new owner Elon Musk as the company's fired employees complain that they were ousted from their posts without severance pay.
Four of the cleaners found on the street spoke to the BBC and said they were told by the new owner that they are no longer useful as they will be replaced by robots.
The BBC spoke to cleaners who say they were sacked by Twitter on Monday. Adriana Villareal, who worked for Twitter for four years, said she was now worried she won't have enough money to feed her family at Christmas.
"It's sad and frustrating for our families and children," she said. The cleaners were working on Twitter last week until they were told their jobs were under threat. Olga Miranda, president of the cleaners' union, said they organized a strike on Monday to protest. Then they learned the cleaners would be fired immediately.
Just before the holidays
"They did it three weeks before Christmas. I think we were fired because we are a union," Julio Alvarado, a 10-year cleaner, said on Twitter. He noted that the environment has always been friendly during his time with the company. But he laments that things changed when Musk took over Twitter in October. According to his statements to the BBC, people were working without worry while now there is fear. Since Musk bought the company, Alvarado says he was accompanied by private security while cleaning parts of the office.
One of Musk's team noted that he informed him that his job was obsolete as, after all, robots would eventually replace humans. Without his job he worries about paying his bills since he also financially supports his family in Mexico.
Cleaners say they don't know what to do because there are few cleaning jobs available in San Francisco right now. A small group of cleaners demonstrated outside the San Francisco Twitter headquarters.
Source: in.gr
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