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The Young Turks’ Progressive Founder Urged His Staff Not To Unionize

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Not a great look, particularly when you're running in a Democratic primary.

The Young Turks’ Progressive Founder Urged His Staff Not To Unionize
Top leadership at the progressive news network The Young Turks held an all-staff meeting at its office in Culver City, California, on Feb. 12. The regularly scheduled gathering was supposed to deal with personnel matters, but instead the focus turned to the staff’s nascent union campaign, which had just gone public.

Earlier that day, a Twitter handle claiming to represent TYT employees had announced on the social media platform their intention to form a union. In the staff meeting, the network’s co-founder and influential host, Cenk Uygur, urged employees not to do so, arguing that a union does not belong at a small, independent outlet like TYT, according to two workers who were present. He said if there had been a union at the network it would not have grown the way it has.
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In an interview with HuffPost, Uygur said he is a strong supporter of unions, especially at large corporations that aren’t sharing profits with their workers. But he said he worries a unionized workforce would bring new legal and bureaucratic costs that TYT can’t sustain. The network has a growing subscription base and has raised venture capital money, but faces many of the same headwinds as other online media dealing with the collapse of ad revenue.

“The reality is we’re in a precarious position,” Uygur said. “We’re in a digital media landscape where almost no one makes money or is sustainable.”
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Sounds like he violated Section 8 (a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act
 
A genocide denier, sexist, and overall huge asshole is a hypocrite. What a shock to me. Never could've seen this coming.
 
I never really liked the young Turks, I find Cenk particularly intolerable.
 
Linc said:
Sanders’s endorsements helped to cost Gillum the win in Florida’s governor’s race in 2018 also.
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Sanders gave Gillum a massive boost that increased Democratic turnout drastically. The Republican-controlled state refused to do a manual recount despite the fact it met the threshold where a hand-count would be required.
 
Surrealistik said:
Thank you for promptly countering this misinformation.
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Uygur being a dirtbag & legalizing pot are among the few things we disagree on; are we to believe Uygur's position has been misrepresented?

Another thing we can disagree on:

Unions = Repugnant

So I don't care if he opposes them, only if he lied about opposing them.
 
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