90% of WeWork Cleaners Jobless After Contract Termination

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11 points·nikolasavic··3 comments

Wow this makes me angry. I'm presently looking into co-working space and will not be including WeWork on my prospective list. $10Bn valuation and a lot of business and this is how they treat human beings. Pretty disgusting.

If you read the article closely, it's pretty clear that it's Commercial Building Maintenance Corp that are in the wrong here.

Why would WeWork be involved with the staff of the company they hired? If Commercial Building Maintenance Corp laid staff off having lost a contract, it isn't WeWork's responsibility to let their staff know. Would WeWork even know to tell them?

Update: If you read the comments section, there's a reply from a WeWork staff member: "WeWork's contract with Commercial Building Maintenance Corp expired, WeWork was no longer a customer of theirs, and instead of CBM giving their staff the bad news in professional manner, they let their newly-unemployed staff members waste time and subway fare to be informed of this via disabled keycard."

I agree that CBM laid off their workers in a nasty way, but that doesn't preclude WeWork from also being in the wrong.

The workers maintain that WeWork dumped CBM because CBM's employees joined a union. That might indicate that WeWork would rather not deal with employees who are in a position to collectively negotiate for better pay and benefits. Now that WeWork has hired replacement employees directly, we'll see whether these new employees try to unionize too.

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