Vice reports that baristas at Slack, the San Francisco-based workplace messaging tool that is likely open on your desktop right now, abruptly lost their jobs earlier this month when the company’s workforce was ordered to begin telecommuting.
The group of five coffee pros operated the company’s espresso machines on a contract basis, Vice reports, and were concerned that in Slack’s effort to slow the spread of coronavirus, they would abruptly lose their incomes. The group reportedly penned a letter to Slack (estimated valuation as of last summer: $20 billion) CEO Stuart Butterfield (estimated net worth as of last summer: $1.3 billion) in which they said they were “out of jobs in the middle of a global pandemic,” but after “Slack caught wind of their intention to criticize the company publicly,” they were told that they’d each receive 90 days of severance.
“I’m ecstatic, and I can’t believe this is happening. I’m super grateful that organizing works and that they gave us our demands,” former Slack barista Cara Berman told Vice. “This is my first organizing victory.”
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