0342.json

{
    "id": 341,
    "date": "2020/10/08",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.wired.com/story/turmoil-black-lives-matter-political-speech-coinbase/",
        "https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/10/08/60-employees-leave-coinbase-over-ceos-pledge-to-be-apolitical/#5e0848325a06",
        "https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-company-af882df8804?gi=e4cb4315d1e5"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "resignation"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "ethics",
        "discrimination"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "white collar workers",
        "inhouse workers"
    ],
    "description": "More than 60 Coinbase employees chose to leave the company, opting for a severance package, to protest CEO Brian Armstrong's assertion that employees should not participate in social activism in the workplace. This represents roughly 5% of the company's employees. This event follows several months of internal activism within the company after management failed to make a public statement on the Black Lives Matter movement.",
    "online": true,
    "locations": [
        "san francisco-california-usa"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "coinbase"
    ],
    "workers": 60,
    "tags": [
        "antiracism",
        "blm"
    ],
    "author": [
        "nataliyaned"
    ],
    "latlngs": null,
    "addresses": null
}