Twitter Yanks Blue Check From Striking Auto Union

September 15, 2023 Business, Social Media

The Intercept reports:

After members of the United Auto Workers walked off the job at midnight, Twitter stripped the union of its account verification without notice, according to a UAW official. The account, as of publication time, lacked verification — but its blue check was restored shortly after the story began circulating widely.

The move by Elon Musk followed the union’s decision to strike against the Big Three automakers on Thursday night after the car companies refused to ink a new contract with their unionized workers.

Class solidarity among the nation’s elite has long been a feature of the American political economy, and the move by Musk, the richest man on the planet, is in line with that sense of allegiance, even as he promotes himself as a populist friend of the working man.

Read the full article. Tesla is non-union.

Elon put the blue check back up. Maybe the Big Three will fold this fast too. pic.twitter.com/tnHY6Zzomd

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) September 15, 2023

Stand up! Stand up for our families. Stand up for our communities. Stand up to corporate greed. Stand up for economic justice. Stand up!#StandUpUAW #StandUp pic.twitter.com/k3c8KuoED4

— UAW (@UAW) September 15, 2023