Concerned Staff just started [ [link removed] ]a petition to Ben Silbermann, Pinterest
Co-Founder & CEO to:
Pay Your Black Employees What You Owe Them!
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[ [link removed] ]Billionaire Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann is underpaying Black employees
Dear John,
I just started a petition titled "[ [link removed] ]Tell Pinterest: Pay your Black
employees what you owe them!"
Two weeks ago, Pinterest CEO, Ben Silbermann, released a statement
expressing solidarity with his Black staff in light of the recent protests
against the police brutality our community is facing, and committed to
taking action to support them, saying that “our Black employees matter.”
The problem? Under Silbermann’s watch, Pinterest has not only underpaid
its Black employees, but it has retaliated against those willing to take a
stand against them with racist threats, intimidation, and harassment. And
when one white employee went as far as to doxx a Black co-worker for
speaking up, the company failed to do enough to protect her. While it’s
easy to appreciate the wave of corporations, brands, and celebrities who
are seeing the importance in publicly affirming their stance against
racism, Pinterest needs to do much more than issue a statement to
meaningfully support Black people. Company values or statements mean
nothing unless they’re backed up by the leadership, the payroll, and the
operations. If he really believes his Black employees matter, Ben
Silbermann owes his current and former Black staff an apology, an
independent third party evaluation of employee pay by race and gender, and
a commitment to giving them the back pay they are owed.
[ [link removed] ]Billionaire Pinterest CEO Silbermann says his Black employees matter
but is underpaying them. Tell him to put his money where his mouth is.
Five years ago, “Black lives matter” was a controversial statement. Today,
though structural white supremacy and racism persist, the leadership and
political power of Black people have made the cost of failing to affirm
this truth too high even for corporations like Pinterest to ignore. But
we’ve seen how easily companies jump from diversity & inclusion messaging
to underpaying their own Black workers, discriminating against Black
customers, and harming Black users and community members. Pinterest is no
exception. Ben Silbermann simply cannot claim to care about his Black
staff without expecting us to examine the ways his actions contradict his
words. Corporations that have anti-Blackness built into their business
models need to follow up their statements against racism with concrete
action.
[ [link removed] ]Will you sign the petition and forward this email to make sure your
voice is heard? Add your name here.
In this moment we are publicly interrogating the harms Black people face
from the institutions like the police that claim to keep us safe. But the
fact is that plenty of corporations also bear responsibility for violence,
harm, and discrimination against Black people, whether they carry it out,
enable it, or profit from it. We deserve more than lip service from the
companies that rely on us as workers, creators, and cultural ambassadors.
Tell Ben Silbermann to put his money where his mouth is. Tell Pinterest to
issue an apology, hire an independent 3rd part to evaluate employee pay by
race and gender, and give its Black employees the back pay they are owed
immediately.
[ [link removed] ]Lip service won't protect Black employees at Pinterest from pay
inequity. Action will. Tell Ben Silbermann to pay them what they are owed.
Thank you,
Concerned Staff
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