The National Labor Relations Board rejected the New York Times’ attempt to stop the election, alleging the bargaining unit was improper. Vote tallies are to be counted on 7 March. Only a select few workers can post in the staff-wide Slack channels, so emojis are often the only way most workers can respond to the posts.īallots for the mail-in election were sent out on 24 January and are due on 28 February. The Slack messages from the executive were quickly flooded by negative emojis.
It cited three reasons: “weakening relationships between employees and managers”, “lengthy negotiating processes and inflexible multi-year agreements” and “reducing your flexibility to learn new skills”. “We encourage you to vote no,” a leaflet distributed by the Times to workers said. “If you have any concerns about how your voice will be represented in negotiations, we urge you to vote no for the union,” she said. Yang argued that a union would “dilute” the voice of smaller teams within the group of workers. “It will introduce another layer into our process that we believe will make it harder to work – and achieve – together.” “A union is not a silver bullet,” wrote Hardiman, urging workers to vote no. Yang reshared Kopit Leviten’s letter to workers, prompting workers to see it on the company’s internal election resources hub. In Slack messages, Times chief product officer Alexandra Hardiman and chief growth officer Hannah Yang posted messages urging workers to vote no in the union election. Kopit Levien wrote: “This is an unproven experiment with permanent consequences.” She emphasized the relationship between management and workers, alleging the relationship would be disrupted by a union, and that the New York Times’ diversity, equity and inclusion goals would also be disrupted by a union. This was two years of uncertainty and discord to negotiate terms that were largely in line with what they and their non-union colleagues already had in place. And the result of those prolonged Wirecutter negotiations was a set of terms that are, in most ways, what the rest of the company already enjoys. Kopit Levien said in the memo: “It took Wirecutter two years to reach an agreement with the NewsGuild. Shortly after the walkout, an agreement was reached between the union and Times management. Workers at Wirecutter walked out on Black Friday weekend in late November and called on the public to boycott the publication, in protest of unfair labor practices and alleging that the New York Times was bargaining in bad faith. She also cited Wirecutter’s union as a warning sign for unionization. In the memo, Kopit Levien cited the origin of the XFun group and its growth, and attributed any disconnect workers might be feeling to working apart during the pandemic.
But that’s not because I’m anti-union,” said Kopit Levien.
“In short, we don’t believe unionizing in XFun is the right move.
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