0355.json

{
    "id": 361,
    "date": "2020/11/18",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/18/facebook-workers-demand-better-treatment-pandemic",
        "https://www.foxglove.org.uk/news/open-letter-from-content-moderators-re-pandemic"
    ],
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    "struggles": [
        "pay and benefits",
        "working conditions",
        "unfair labor practices"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "contract workers"
    ],
    "description": "More than 200 Facebook workers signed a letter demanding better treatment for content moderators after being required to return to the office in the midst of the pandemic. The contractors who wrote the letter condemned the company for deciding \u201cto risk our lives to maintain Facebook\u2019s profits during the pandemic\u201d. It was sent to chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg, chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, and top executives at Accenture and CPL, two companies that contract the moderators. The open letter was published with UK-based non-profit Foxglove.",
    "online": true,
    "locations": [
        "usa"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "CPL",
        "facebook",
        "accenture"
    ],
    "workers": 200,
    "tags": [
        "coronavirus",
        "moderators"
    ],
    "author": [
        "organizejs"
    ],
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    "addresses": [
        "CPL, Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming, United States",
        "Facebook, 300, West 6th Street, Downtown, Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78701, United States",
        "Accenture, 323, Congress Avenue, Downtown, Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78701, United States"
    ]
}