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New York Times Tech Guild Goes on Strike

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• yincrash 2y ago
  https://bsky.app/profile/maggieastor.bsky.social/post/3la4qgiixlr2x https://bsky.app/profile/maggieastor.bsky.social/post/3la4qg... From @maggieastor NYT Games and Cooking are BEHIND THE PICKET LINE. Please don’t play or engage with Games or Cooking content while the strike lasts! News coverage — including election coverage — is NOT behind the picket line. It’s okay to read and share that, though the site and app may very well have problems.
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• yincrash 2y ago
  It appears that one of the things the tech workers are striking for is to not force remote workers to RTO including folks who were originally hired fully remote. It's good to see in office workers choosing to strike to support remote workers.
• legitster 2y ago
  > “We can’t do our jobs without the Tech Guild,” the pledge said. “Can you imagine if our election needle didn’t work, the app didn’t open or the homepage went down?” Timing your strike with election day is a pretty shitty move. I get that the union wants to throw it's weight around and pick an important date, but... A: management is probably very distracted right now. To add to this, they are not offering a clear and easy to action agreement, management would have to sign a blank check to the union to get their needle back - this is insanely risky. B: they're using independent journalism as a bargaining chip and lightly threatening Democracy in the process. Don't love that they couldn't literally wait 2 days in an election where trust in media is one of the core issues.
  • eliotfeldsman 2y ago
    How are they threatening Democracy? What's stopping any user from moving onto the next website?
  • caekislove 2y ago
    How did capital-D Democracy function before the invention of "election needles"!?