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The staff at the Los Angeles Times have voted to unionize. Lefty media magnates are now being hoisted by their own petards. Soon they won't be able to afford being Lefties anymore.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...staff-vote-to-unionize-in-blow-to-owner-tronc
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/media/los-angeles-times-union.html
OMG - Lefty publisher is sexist hypocrite? How unheard of.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...staff-vote-to-unionize-in-blow-to-owner-tronc
Tronc, which also publishes the Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun, aggressively fought the labor drive in meetings, online and in emails. In a Jan. 3 email to employees that was reviewed by Bloomberg, interim Executive Editor Jim Kirk and Editor in Chief Lewis D’Vorkin warned: “Union leaders may tell you they can protect against layoffs but they didn’t at the New York Times, Huffington Post, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.”
“There was a time, way back when, when a guild couldn’t make headway in the newsroom, because the people were treated very well,” Paul Pringle, an investigative reporter who helped spearhead the drive, said in an interview before the vote. “Those days are over.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/media/los-angeles-times-union.html
The newsroom vote took place on Jan. 4 and the final count showed that out of the 292 employees who cast ballots, 248 voted in favor of joining the NewsGuild, which represents 25,000 workers at news organizations across the United States. That ends a longstanding resistance to unionization that was shaped in part by a bombing at the paper’s headquarters by labor organizers in 1910.
The result was announced the day after the publication of a report by National Public Radio that Mr. Levinsohn had twice been a defendant in sexual harassment lawsuits while employed by other companies. After the article was published, the committee organizing the unionization effort called for Mr. Levinsohn to resign or be fired.
OMG - Lefty publisher is sexist hypocrite? How unheard of.