As corporate leaders reckon with how to combat racism and support black employees in the wake of the George Floyd protests, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Tuesday that Twitter will make Juneteenth a companywide holiday.... [+]Dorsey said that both Twitter and payments startup Square, where Dorsey is also CEO, will now designate Juneteenth as a holiday for U.S. employees.
Dorsey noted that other “countries and regions around the world have their own days to celebrate emancipation, and we will do the work to make those dates company holidays everywhere we are present.”the end of slavery in the U.S., but it isn’t an official national holiday and corporate America hasn’t typically given employees that day off.that Juneteenth should be designated a national holiday in a reply to a Twitter user on his original announcement.
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rachsandl He resembles Tyron Laninster
rachsandl so is almost every other major company in NYC
rachsandl Any idea on when they will be observing Trail of Tears day? CherokeeNation
rachsandl Every time I see him, it looks like he was just rescued from some deserted island where he was stranded for 10 years.
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rachsandl We need to make Juneteenth and Election Day federalists holidays. One crucial to our American history and context of where we are as a society now, and the other to the survival of our American democracy and its future.
rachsandl Thanks to twitter for celebrating the Day of Portugal!
rachsandl Yes !!!!!
rachsandl he looks like a troll
rachsandl And this is why I quit Facebook for Twitter. That and the fact that Facebook is a Facist Sympathizer that sucks life and instigates stupidity and hate, and gives money to Suckerburg.
rachsandl used to be a time when being a billionnaire meant you believed in capitalism
rachsandl You cannot allow trump to continue his tweets targeting and endangering individuals. Now it is the 75 yo who was pushed over by police in Boston and who remains critical but stable in the hospital. He is not a domestic terrorist. But his life may be endangered bc of trumps tweet.
rachsandl Donald trump exposed
rachsandl jack is ok with this this tweet. I really wonder where he stands
rachsandl I don't know, It seems like a no brainer. Protest against racism for your children and their children & take a chance you might get the trumpy greed virus or do nothing get shot dead for being Black anytime of the fucking day 365 days a year!
rachsandl He is a good man