Elon Musk's America PAC Canvassers Faced Surveillance, Sickness, and Late Pay in Arizona
Source: Wired
"I felt like Big Brother was always watching me,” says a contracted door knocker, one of several who allege to WIRED that they faced poor working conditions while getting out the vote for Donald Trump.
Paid door knockers for Elon Musk’s get-out-the-vote effort in Arizona allege to WIRED that they’ve had to work through illness and have struggled to get paid on time or in the full amount promised under onerous quotas.
Five people who shared their experiences working under the umbrella of the billionaire’s canvassing operation in the state—four through a group which has received donations from Musk and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, one with a subcontractor for Musk’s America PAC—claim they were subjected to poor working conditions. These include, they allege, practically impossible-to-meet quotas akin to the ones first reported by WIRED in a story about the treatment of paid canvassers brought into Michigan for the same work.
While the Michigan workers had to contend with being driven around in seatless U-Haul vans—Blitz Canvassing, the America PAC vendor involved, later told WIRED its subcontractors “never should have driven their canvassers in a U-Haul van”—the Arizona workers make distinct allegations. These include pressure to work through sickness in the desert heat and what one canvasser describes as a hyper-surveillance culture.
“I felt like it was 1984, you know what I mean?” a door knocker who was flown in from out of state and contracted by Liberty Staffing Services to drop literature for America PAC tells WIRED, requesting anonymity because they signed a nondisclosure agreement. “I felt like Big Brother was always watching me.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musks-america-pac-canvassers-surveillance-sickness-late-pay-arizona/
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