0318.json

{
    "id": 310,
    "date": "2020/08/14",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/technology/pinterest-walkout-equality.html",
        "https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/14/pinterest-employees-are-walking-out-today-in-light-of-discrimination-allegations/",
        "https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/14/21369035/pinterest-virtual-walkout-protest-discrimination-slack-blind",
        "https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/08/13/pinterest-workers-walk-out-calling-end-workplace-bias/3369999001/"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "protest",
        "open letter",
        "strike"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "discrimination"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "white collar workers",
        "inhouse workers"
    ],
    "description": "Pinterest employees staged a virtual walk out by posting messages to Slack and then logging off their work accounts, to protest the racial and gender discrimination brought to light by Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks, and then again by Francoise Brougher. Workers also signed onto an online petition to CEO Ben Silberman calling for an end to discrimination and retaliation by the company.",
    "online": true,
    "locations": null,
    "companies": [
        "pinterest"
    ],
    "workers": 236,
    "tags": [
        "antiracism",
        "blm"
    ],
    "author": null,
    "latlngs": null,
    "addresses": null
}