Washington Post Staffers Will Go on Strike Thursday - Washingtonian
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More than 700 Washington Post employees plan to walk off the job Thursday for a 24-hour strike. Post Guild, the union that represents most of the company's journalists, production specialists, and drivers expressed frustration over its ongoing contract negotiations with Post management in a letter to readers Tuesday: For 18 months, members of our union,

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They’ve asked that people honor the picket line by not engaging with Washington Post content on Dec. 7:

Screenshot of a Tweet by the Washington Post guild asking people to not engage with their content while doing a 24-hour strike on December 7, 2023

  • spinnetroubleEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I read a LOT of Washington Post. I really appreciate the heads up on the Thursday strike–apparently, that’s gonna be a severe news diet day.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Bezos pays for a significant fraction of the climate journalism in the US though. A lot of the activist crowd depends on it somewhat to get the word out.

      (I’ll note that he’s doing it because he was afraid that Amazon Employees for Climate Justice would turn into a union when they started making asks about working conditions)