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Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>Cleaners at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco have told they were sacked without severance pay.<\/b><\/p>\n

One of them told a member of Elon Musk’s team had said their jobs would be replaced by robots.<\/p>\n

A California state senator said Mr Musk was treating the former staff “like garbage”.<\/p>\n

San Francisco’s city attorney, David Chiu, said he’s investigating if Mr Musk broke the law. Twitter has not responded to a BBC request for comment.<\/p>\n

“Elon Musk has had a long history of flouting labour laws,” Mr Chiu told.<\/p>\n

“While I’m not surprised this happened, I feel for these workers. We will be looking into this further.”<\/p>\n

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The press spoke to four cleaners who say they were fired from Twitter on Monday – their interviews were conducted in Spanish.<\/p>\n

Adrianna Villarreal, who worked for Twitter for four years, said she’s now worried she won’t have enough money to feed her family over Christmas.<\/p>\n

“It’s a sad and frustrating thing for our families and children,” she said.<\/p>\n

The cleaners were working at Twitter last week until they were told their jobs were under threat.<\/p>\n

Olga Miranda, president of the cleaners’ union, said they organised a strike on Monday to protest. The cleaners were then told they had been laid off effective immediately, she says.<\/p>\n

“They did this three weeks before Christmas,” she said. “I think we were fired because we’re a union.”<\/p>\n

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Julio Alvarado had been a cleaner for 10 years at Twitter. He says the environment was always friendly during his time there.<\/p>\n

But he says things changed when Elon Musk took over Twitter in October.<\/p>\n

“People worked without worries,” he told the BBC. “Now we are afraid.”<\/p>\n

Since Mr Musk acquired the company, Mr Alvarado says he was escorted by private security while cleaning parts of the office.<\/p>\n

He also says he was told by someone from Mr Musk’s team that his job would be obsolete soon anyway because robots would eventually replace human cleaners.<\/p>\n

Without his job, Mr Alvarado says he’s worried about paying his bills. He also says he’s supporting his family back in Mexico.<\/p>\n

“I can only tell you, I don’t have money to pay the rent,” he says. “I’m not going to have medical insurance. I don’t know what I’m going to do.”<\/p>\n

Juana Laura Chavero Ramirez said she had worked for five years at Twitter. A diabetic, she’s concerned she won’t be able to get her medication.<\/p>\n

“It’s just horrible,” she said. “We’re not only losing our job, we’re losing our income.”<\/p>\n

Adrianna Villarreal, who had worked at Twitter since 2018, said she was worried she would not be able to afford Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n

“We are supposed to have Christmas presents for our children,” she said, “a plate of food on our table and overnight we don’t have anything.”<\/p>\n

The cleaners say they do not know what to do – as there are few available cleaning vacancies in San Francisco at the moment.<\/p>\n

A small group of cleaners have protested outside San Francisco’s Twitter headquarters since Monday.<\/p>\n

California state senator Scott Wiener told the BBC the cleaners had been treated “horribly”.<\/p>\n

“In the short term, I’d like to see him [Elon Musk] treat his janitors like human beings,” said Mr Wiener, “and get them back working – not just throw them out right before Christmas.”<\/p>\n

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