Very likely heavily weighted towards the girl boss types copy/pasting pdfs from one email to another. The whole company would literally fall apart without them holding status meetings between trips to the wine bar and nap room.
Do it comrades! Show these capitalist pigs that you will not stand for their exploitative policies like five day work weeks and equal opportunity employment. Talk to your allies at other newspapers and TV networks and spread this glorious revolution to their companies, so that we may finally reach our workers' paradise in the MSM.
Do not give in until your every demand is met. Our very survival depends on it!
I don't think the current job market is a great time to make insane demands, but I also don't think anyone has ever accused laptop class communists to have a shred of (self)awareness.
While I would agree with you about the job market, have to wonder if part of this is a case of way too much kool-aid consumption. Maybe they've printed DNC lies about this being the best economy ever so many times they started to believe them?
I disagree. The past several years have proven that when Trump is in the news, more people watch them. It's now peak election season, and it's more relevant than ever to report on Trump. If their strike impedes the New York times from releasing propaganda, then this is going to be a huge loss for them. They will be greatly incentivized to come to the table as soon as possible.
Not to mention, if, God forbids, the democrats cheat another election win and Kamala becomes "President", then the economy will become even worse, very quickly. If they don't make wage increase demands now, when else would they have the opportunity to do so?
And if Republicans are able to counter the voter fraud and Trump wins, then the economy will quickly improve, so having a bad economy now will no longer be a factor. The Times will also start making a lot more profit than they currently do, because they now have years of experience proving that printing 99% negative coverage of Trump generates a lot of traffic. As such, they might not be so concerned about granting their demands, despite the uncertainty of the election results.
Times management has been frustrated by proposals that would provide more money for nonwhite staff and others from underrepresented communities to attend conferences, and language that would prioritize non-citizens in the US on visas in the case of layoffs — both of which the paper pointed out couldn't be fulfilled because they likely violate employment laws.
I'm surprised to hear that NYT hasn't already decided to prioritize foreigners in the case of layoffs. Or maybe they just don't want to have it in writing because they know they need plausible deniability.
The pet bereavement thing is literally the only thing on that list that I can even kind of get behind, and even then it's something I can only barely support, mainly because it's the only one of their demands that remotely makes sense.
If that includes that godawful shit they call lunch, then that’s the best demand by far. There’s no way it does, because assuming the average makeup of a software team today, 90% of them would starve.
600 largely software engineers? That seems .. a lot.
Anyway, I fully support their demands. God speed you crazy SOBs. Have fun striking. May you milk the beast to the fullest.
I agree.
Very likely heavily weighted towards the girl boss types copy/pasting pdfs from one email to another. The whole company would literally fall apart without them holding status meetings between trips to the wine bar and nap room.
Do it comrades! Show these capitalist pigs that you will not stand for their exploitative policies like five day work weeks and equal opportunity employment. Talk to your allies at other newspapers and TV networks and spread this glorious revolution to their companies, so that we may finally reach our workers' paradise in the MSM.
Do not give in until your every demand is met. Our very survival depends on it!
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I don't think the current job market is a great time to make insane demands, but I also don't think anyone has ever accused laptop class communists to have a shred of (self)awareness.
While I would agree with you about the job market, have to wonder if part of this is a case of way too much kool-aid consumption. Maybe they've printed DNC lies about this being the best economy ever so many times they started to believe them?
I disagree. The past several years have proven that when Trump is in the news, more people watch them. It's now peak election season, and it's more relevant than ever to report on Trump. If their strike impedes the New York times from releasing propaganda, then this is going to be a huge loss for them. They will be greatly incentivized to come to the table as soon as possible.
Not to mention, if, God forbids, the democrats cheat another election win and Kamala becomes "President", then the economy will become even worse, very quickly. If they don't make wage increase demands now, when else would they have the opportunity to do so?
And if Republicans are able to counter the voter fraud and Trump wins, then the economy will quickly improve, so having a bad economy now will no longer be a factor. The Times will also start making a lot more profit than they currently do, because they now have years of experience proving that printing 99% negative coverage of Trump generates a lot of traffic. As such, they might not be so concerned about granting their demands, despite the uncertainty of the election results.
I hope they destroy the Times. Go woke, go broke
OOOOOY VEEEEEY.
If both groups disappeared off the face of the planet this instance, I would not miss either of them, and the world is better off without them.
Let them fight.
I'm surprised to hear that NYT hasn't already decided to prioritize foreigners in the case of layoffs. Or maybe they just don't want to have it in writing because they know they need plausible deniability.
Not surprising, since it's probably safe to assume these geeks have graduated from college over the last ten years or so.
Wouldn't it be great if their childish demands were met and it bankrupted that shit-rag?
More likely they'll strike and temporarily disable the NYT as a source of anti-Trump propaganda.
NYTimes primary readership is AWFuLs.
The pet bereavement thing is literally the only thing on that list that I can even kind of get behind, and even then it's something I can only barely support, mainly because it's the only one of their demands that remotely makes sense.
If that includes that godawful shit they call lunch, then that’s the best demand by far. There’s no way it does, because assuming the average makeup of a software team today, 90% of them would starve.