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Feb 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve done 750 miles on the #PacificCrestTrail in the last year, up and down some of the country’s biggest mountains with 30 pounds on my back, usually 20 miles per day.

I’m in my #prime, baby. I’m 61.
But also, I don’t believe in cancel culture. I believe in apologies and human growth. I know @donlemon a little and know him to be a decent, even feminist guy who said a dumb and offensive thing. I’m sure he will learn from it.
For many of us women, the years after the kids are not only up and out but self sufficient, when our work has become successful and secure — these are the best years.

Take care of your mental and physical health and your 50s, 60s and beyond are truly PRIME. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
For many, certainly for me, 20s and 30s are angsty years filled with full time work and child rearing.

By middle age we have figured out how to be happy.

Young women, it gets better! You’re not in your PRIME, not even close. You’re laying groundwork for your happy future.

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Jan 22
Prince Andrew reportedly asking his legal team to find a way to undo his sex abuse settlement.

Here's why chances of that are somewhere between zero and not a chance.

1/
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Andrew was represented by experienced, top flight (not to mention expensive) lawyers. I know these defense attorneys. I am up against them all the time in my fights for sex abuse victims.

Judges will not allow parties ably represented by counsel to welch on deals.

2/
Andrew himself is a grown man, 61, of sound mind and fully capable of managing his legal affairs.

Judges will not allow competent adults to simply tear up settlement agreements they now regret.

3/
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Jan 9
Twitter workers, many of whom I represent, were FINALLY given their "severance agreements" on Saturday.

They are really settlement agreements which SILENCE WORKERS FOR LIFE and and require them to give up important legal rights.

Let's discuss. 1/
First, any worker who wants to bring a claim, for Twitter's broken promises, discrimination, fraud etc. (the claims we are filing), SIGNS AWAY THE RIGHT TO SUE FOREVER under this agreement.

No lawsuit, no arbitration if you sign.

So it's really a settlement agreement. 2/
Under this agreement workers promise not to provide assistance or cooperation to ANYONE with a dispute against Twitter.

If you were a victim of age discrimination, e.g., and are willing to provide truthful info to another victim -- you CAN'T if you sign. Ever. For life.

3/
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Dec 14, 2022
Wow. Elon is now considering not paying the one month of severance he promised IN WRITING, last month.

On behalf of the many Twitter workers I represent: we'll file new claims for this breach, if it happens, and add it to all the others.

#TwitterLayoffs

nytimes.com/2022/12/13/tec…
Let's be clear about the many promises made, promises broken to Twitter workers.

In his acquisition agreement, Elon promised they'd get the same severance as pre-Elon laid off workers.

That didn't happen.

#TwitterLayoffs
Employees stayed on during the tumultuous April - October "Elon is buying Twitter" "Elon is not buying Twitter" chaos, based on this promise from both HR and Elon.

#lovewhereyouworked
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Nov 17, 2022
The federal National Labor Relations Act prohibits retaliation against groups of employees working together in in a concerted action seeking better employment conditions.

Here’s how this could work for Twitter workers facing “opt in or be fired” choice today.

#TwitterLayoffs
Twitter employees can opt in to Musk’s “bend the knee” mandate to hold onto their jobs.
Then a small brave group could approach management and state that while everyone is willing to work hard and strive for excellence, they oppose the mandate of “long hours at high intensity.”
Requests like this are always best done respectful and in writing so it’s clear later exactly what was said.

While NRLA generally protects union organizing activities, it also protects nonunion workers simply working together (must be 2 or more) for better working conditions.
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Nov 16, 2022
Let’s talk about the legal problems Elon just created for himself with this cruel new staff email.

You’re fired if you don’t commit to long hours at high intensity within 24 hours?

Let’s start with disabled workers. Image
Under federal and state laws, those with physical or mental disabilities are entitled to reasonable accommodations by their employers. For many, this would include working reasonable hours.

@elonmusk are you planning a mass layoff of your remaining disabled workers?
Next, childcare still overwhelmingly disproportionately impacts female workers, for whom working long hours on a regular basis is often just a hard no.

So we have a gender discrimination issue too.

#TwitterLayoffs
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Nov 5, 2022
Having investigated #TwitterLayoffs with dozens of tweeps now, let's talk about important employee rights under Elon's "merger" agreement (the one he tried to wriggle out of, and couldn't.)

His promises there are important and legally enforceable by laid off folks. Here's why.
Part of what Elon promises when buying Twitter was that workers laid off post-Elon would get no worse compensation and benefits than workers laid off pre-Elon.

Read it for yourself. (Or just believe me, I read boring fine print for a living.)

#TwitterLayoffs
Now I know from several good sources that pre-Elon terminated employees got:

1. two months' severance
2. prorated bonuses
3. early vesting of upcoming equity

OOPS! Elon forgot to give workers #2 and #3.

But workers were not parties to the contract. Do they still have rights?
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