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Media workers strike to protest layoffs at New York Daily News, Forbes and Condé Nast
AP (on thier own site) ^ | January 25, 2024 | PHILIP MARCELO

Posted on 01/26/2024 5:43:14 AM PST by Salman

NEW YORK (AP) — Journalists at The New York Daily News and Forbes walked off the job Thursday amid contentious contract talks with management and a difficult few weeks in the news industry.

Both strike are historic: It’s the first-ever at the business-focused magazine in more than a century, and the first at the storied newspaper in more than three decades, according to the NewsGuild of New York.

The one-day strike at the Daily News coincides with Forbes walkout, which runs through Monday.

In midtown Manhattan, dozens of Daily News staffers and their supporters picketed Thursday outside a small co-working space — the newspaper’s office since its lower Manhattan newsroom was shuttered in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: unions

1 posted on 01/26/2024 5:43:14 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

Let’s take a day off to show solidarity with our lost coworkers. Let’s do it on Friday so we can take a 3 day weekend.


2 posted on 01/26/2024 5:45:02 AM PST by webheart
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To: Salman

Don’t forget SI!/ sarc.


3 posted on 01/26/2024 5:49:38 AM PST by wetgundog
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To: Salman

The unions liberal puppet masters no longer have any use for them. But since it is all about the “revolution” I am sure they will understand.


4 posted on 01/26/2024 6:01:50 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Trump/Jennifer-Ruth Green in 24)
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To: Salman

5 posted on 01/26/2024 6:06:42 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: Salman

Sounds like a win-win situation.


6 posted on 01/26/2024 6:35:58 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Enterprise

7 posted on 01/26/2024 7:39:44 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Salman

I haven’t read Condé Nast for 20 years.


8 posted on 01/26/2024 8:17:14 AM PST by Zathras
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"Hey, Sam. You got that list of the people that struck back when the layoffs were going on? You do? Good. Now we have a list of folks to lay off next month.."
9 posted on 01/26/2024 11:01:21 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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