A janitor laid off at Twitter's headquarters said one of Elon Musk's team members told him he'd be replaced by robots
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- A janitor told BBC that a member of Elon Musk's team said his job would eventually be replaced by robots.
- Four former Twitter cleaners told the publication they were laid off without severance on Monday.
- Twitter janitors went on strike on Monday after they learned their jobs were in danger.
A member of Elon Musk's team told Julio Alvarado, a janitor who was laid off at Twitter earlier this week, that he'd eventually be replaced by robots. Alvarado told BBC.
Four former Twitter janitors told the publication they were laid off without severance on Monday. Alvarado, who worked as a cleaner at Twitter's headquarters for 10 years, said the tone at the company soured after Musk took over in October.
Since the acquisition, Alvarado said that private security began escorting hims around the building while he was cleaning.
"People worked without worries," he told BBC about the environment at Twitter before the acquisition. "Now we are afraid."
Olga Miranda, the president of the Service Employees International Union Local 87, said she believes that the workers were laid off because they were in a union, BBC reported. The workers had organized a strike on Monday after they'd learned the contractor that employed them was set to be replaced.
San Francisco's city attorney, David Chiu, has said he is investigating whether Twitter broke the law. According to San Francisco law, when a company changes contractors for cleaning services, the contractor is supposed to hire workers from the old contractor for at least 90 days during the transition.
Multiple workers told the publication that they are concerned about how they will be able to pay bills in the coming weeks, particularly with the holidays coming up.
"Overnight we don't have anything," Adrianna Villarreal, a cleaner who had worked at Twitter since 2018, told BBC.
"I can only tell you, I don't have money to pay the rent," Alvarado said. "I'm not going to have medical insurance. I don't know what I'm going to do."
A spokesperson for Twitter did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication.
The company is also being investigated by the San Francisco the Department of Building Inspection over reports that Twitter has installed bedrooms for workers at its headquarters.
On Wednesday, Musk defended his decision to turn some of Twitter's offices into bedrooms, saying he is "providing beds for tired employees."
Since his acquisition, Musk has fired more than half of Twitter's employees and brought in several workers from his other companies, as well as close business associates, like PayPal mafia buddy David Sacks and personal attorney Alex Spiro.
Read BBC's full story on its website.
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