YouTube Music contractors were informed mid-speech, during a publicly-recorded and broadcast meeting with the City Council of Austin, Texas that they'd just lost their jobs.
"To be supported by the city of Austin, and also our allies in the labour community—[it] gives us the motivation to keep this fight going," says Jack Benedict as he speaks to the council—though he trails off as he turns to his co-worker Katie Marie Marschner, approaching the podium. Composing herself, Marschner then says: "Not to interrupt but they just laid us all off."
