Posted on 11/03/2024 2:58:47 PM PST by Libloather
Hundreds of tech staffers at the beleaguered New York Times could vote to walk off the job on Tuesday if the company doesn’t deliver on their job demands.
The threatened Election Day walkout, which could critically hamper the newspaper’s coverage of the presidential vote, comes amid stalled negotiations between the two sides, the Wall Street Journal said.
“We have made it clear that we need to reach an agreement before the election in order to avert a strike,” the union’s bargaining team wrote to the Times’ board of directors urging its members to intervene.
The stance by the Guild, which represents software engineers, data analysts and designers at “The Gray Lady,” marks the first test of the union’s labor muscle since it was formed in 2022, the outlet said.
According to the union, members voted to walk off the job by a 95% margin in September if the company did not meet their demands, which include job security in the face of improving AI technology and pay equity for women and minority union members.
Election Day, particularly on a presidential election year, typically provides an enormous surge in readership for news organizations, as is expected to be the case on Tuesday with a hotly contested race between Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
A spokesperson for the Times griped to the Journal that the union’s deadline seemed “arbitrary” and said that selecting Election Day “feels both unnecessary and at odds with our mission.”
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Lol
Replace them with illegal aliens.
It’s not the reporters, it’s the graphic designers, printers, etc.
That’s the only competent crew over there.
Who would know?
Gee, how awful…/s
HELL NO——
LET MUSK BUY THE NYT FOR $1 & SHUT IT ALL DOWN.
Inflation always starts the next round of musical chairs…
Be still my heart!
Gotta love those friggin’ union thugs. We’d never have strikes without ‘em.
Cool.
I was thinking web team. I’ll admit they’re good.
I hate to break this to them, but Deep State doesn’t need thousands of presstitutes to peddle the same swill.
Article:
“job security in the face of improving AI technology”
In other news the covered wagon and horse-shoe manufacturer’s union demanded job security in the face of improving automobiles.
This is not to end well—for the union.
The question is—can AI do it better?
Maybe not today—but in a year or two watch out...
That’s a shame.
I might read the Times if they stopped supporting stupidity.
Oh won’t that be a shame!
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