L.A. TIMES EMPLOYEES GO ON STRIKE, GET WHIPLASH WHEN THE CONSEQUENCES ARRIVE:
UPDATE: LA Times management just locked us out of Slack, where we’ve been voicing our support for each other and our strike since early this morning.
What a disappointing response from them — shutting us out instead of engaging with our dissent.@latguild https://t.co/rf76rLuqrO
— jonah valdez (@jonahmv) January 19, 2024
My neck hurts. Shockingly enough, employers don’t typically allow striking employees to use company resources once they walk out. It would be like striking coal miners demanding access to the break room. The entire point of the strike is that you leave the building and refuse to work.
These pampered journalists are so used to working from their couches, though, that they have no concept of the real world. You don’t get to go on strike while still using your company’s Slack channel to stir up dissent. Justifiably, the L.A. Times went further, also locking the striking employees out of their email accounts.
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Do you want to know why the L.A. Times is playing hardball? Because they know they can. These union workers are going to cry on social media for a few days and then go right back to pumping out biased content because they have no other options. What are they going to do? Learn to code?
Well, there’s always riding out the “funemployment,” which is how L.A. Times journalists described the results of the recession during Joe’s boss’ first time in office, back in 2009. It’s like “a blessing disguise!”
And speaking of Soviet-style euphemisms deployed by people clueless about their own newspaper’s past errors and excesses:
LA Times Guild Blasts Leadership During Historic Work Stoppage: 'They're Trying to Pit Us Against Each Other' | Video https://t.co/feF57CfX2T
— LaborUnionNews.com (@WorkPlaceRpt) January 20, 2024