Seattle, WA
Food service workers for Facebook parent company Meta protest for severance outside Seattle offices
SEATTLE — Protesters gathered outdoors of Fb guardian firm Meta’s workplaces in South Lake Union on Thursday afternoon.
Amid the tech layoffs on the firm, cooks, line servers, and café employees who work at these workplaces are apprehensive for his or her jobs — and so they’re demanding equal therapy.
Final fall, Meta introduced it was shedding 13% of its workforce, together with 700 tech jobs within the Seattle area.
Meta is planning to sublease a number of buildings within the South Lake Union neighborhood, however meals service employees say they haven’t been notified about what’s going to occur to them or their jobs.
The employees on Thursday mentioned Meta engineers going through layoffs are getting a severance package deal with at the very least 16 weeks of pay, and an extension of well being advantages — and now, they’re additionally demanding severance.
KIRO 7 reached out to Meta for remark however to date haven’t heard again.
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