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Increasing labor costs and reducing employment flexibility at companies that already have notoriously poor business fundamentals? Can't wait to see how that pla

by yasp 8y ago

Increasing labor costs and reducing employment flexibility at companies that already have notoriously poor business fundamentals? Can't wait to see how that plays out.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago
The reduced flexibility worries me far more than the cost. I've worked in union workplaces. There's always some instances of doing nothing (or doing busy work) because the nobody who's allowed to do whatever needs to be done is available and the other people who could do it won't because they're not allowed to do that job. When that happens regularly there's ripples through the workplace culture and work ethic and quality nose dive. I hope the union treads lightly and carefully. If they go full on public transit rail-workers union on day one it's gonna end badly.
- pranjalv123 8y ago
  Why would a editorial staff union be managed the same way as a public transit rail-workers union? Wouldn't a better example be one of the many already existing creative workers unions, like the WGA, CWA, or Newspaper guild?
- stnmtn 8y ago
  Forgive me for being flippant, but yes, if a union of writers acts like a bad example of how unions are supposed to act, the union of writers will be bad But why would you say that? It feels very defeatist to me to do something like that
- lovich 8y ago
  I dont need a union to work at a job where I am not allowed to fix things because "thats not your job" so we sit around for hours because some critical system is down. Everything youve described I have experienced in non union shops, so its not a unique characteristic of unions
ordinaryradical 8y ago
Just curious: what are the New Yorkers "notoriously poor business fundamentals"? Haven't they been one of the most long-running, profitable print magazines in America?
- anilshanbhag 8y ago
  Print magazines are on a secular decline. Conde Nast would want to re-organize => layoff some people is because the revenues are going down. When there is growth, they would be hiring not firing people.

by yasp 8y ago

Increasing labor costs and reducing employment flexibility at companies that already have notoriously poor business fundamentals? Can't wait to see how that plays out.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago

The reduced flexibility worries me far more than the cost. I've worked in union workplaces. There's always some instances of doing nothing (or doing busy work) because the nobody who's allowed to do whatever needs to be done is available and the other people who could do it won't because they're not allowed to do that job. When that happens regularly there's ripples through the workplace culture and work ethic and quality nose dive. I hope the union treads lightly and carefully. If they go full on public transit rail-workers union on day one it's gonna end badly.

pranjalv123 8y ago
Why would a editorial staff union be managed the same way as a public transit rail-workers union? Wouldn't a better example be one of the many already existing creative workers unions, like the WGA, CWA, or Newspaper guild?
stnmtn 8y ago
Forgive me for being flippant, but yes, if a union of writers acts like a bad example of how unions are supposed to act, the union of writers will be bad But why would you say that? It feels very defeatist to me to do something like that
lovich 8y ago
I dont need a union to work at a job where I am not allowed to fix things because "thats not your job" so we sit around for hours because some critical system is down. Everything youve described I have experienced in non union shops, so its not a unique characteristic of unions

ordinaryradical 8y ago

Just curious: what are the New Yorkers "notoriously poor business fundamentals"? Haven't they been one of the most long-running, profitable print magazines in America?

anilshanbhag 8y ago
Print magazines are on a secular decline. Conde Nast would want to re-organize => layoff some people is because the revenues are going down. When there is growth, they would be hiring not firing people.