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Maybe they BuzzFeed's remaining employees should unionize to keep this same shit from happening to them.
by gerbal 8y ago
Maybe they BuzzFeed's remaining employees should unionize to keep this same shit from happening to them.
- hedora 8y agoIf they go that route, I hope they have the sense to create their own union instead of going with one of the giant established organizations.
- catacombs 8y agoEasier said than done.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoAnother company tried that: "News workers unionized. Days later, they were jobless. Was it payback?" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/04/dnainfo-gothamist-union-ricketts-shutdown https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/04/dnainfo-goth...
- cribbles 8y agoSee also Mic,[1] which laid off its entire editorial staff in response to the formation of a union (but prior to a contract being signed). For counterexamples, see Vice,[2] which negotiated a nearly 30% pay hike in their first union contract, and Slate,[3] whose editorial union recently negotiated a $51,000 starting salary with annual pay increases. Note that a union is not a guarantee against layoffs. See [4]: the Huffington Post recently lost 15 of its unionized employees to a layoff. On the upside, they were contractually guaranteed severance pay - because they collectively bargained for it. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/mic-layoff-bustle-union-labor https://www.businessinsider.com/mic-layoff-bustle-union-labo... [2] https://gawker.com/vice-writers-get-a-union-contract-with-a-big-raise-1771276669 https://gawker.com/vice-writers-get-a-union-contract-with-a-... [3] https://wwd.com/business-news/media/slate-media-editorial-staff-union-deal-1202965162/ https://wwd.com/business-news/media/slate-media-editorial-st... [4] https://twitter.com/HuffPostUnion/status/1088524725259628544 https://twitter.com/HuffPostUnion/status/1088524725259628544