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How labor organizing helped get Trump banned from Twitter, a thread.
If you think the CEO of Twitter did this purely out of the goodness of his heart and because they are a good responsible company, consider this: (1/5)
If you think the CEO of Twitter did this purely out of the goodness of his heart and because they are a good responsible company, consider this: (1/5)
On Monday morning, Google employees announced that they had formed a solidarity union, the Alphabet Workers Union. https://alphabetworkersunion.org/press/releases/2021-01-04-code-cwa-google-union/ (2/5)
About 36 hours later @AlphabetWorkers called on YouTube to ban Trump from the platform https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/8/22220778/alphabet-workers-union-demands-youtube-ban-trump (3/5)
About 36 hours after that, around 300 Twitter employees had signed an internal petition to ban Trump from the platform https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/8/22221386/twitter-employees-trump-ban-internal-letter-capitol-attack (4/5)
Was Jack Dorsey concerned that if he didn't acquiesce to his employees' demands to ban Trump that disaffected Twitter employees might choose to form a union like the Google employees did? One can only speculate, but it was very likely a factor in it finally happening today. (5/5)
