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Leftist Writers On Strike: Check Out Their Outrageous Demands

 Dozens of leftist writers went on strike Tuesday after negotiations failed over a brand-new union deal for G/O Media staff members. The previous contract brokered with the Gizmodo Media Group Union, which encompasses the Journos at 6 internet sites– Gizmodo, Jezebel, Lifehacker, The Origin, Kotaku, and Jalopnik— ran out at midnight.

“In 2015, this union broke new ground when it organized the first digital media union,” the organization said in a statement. “Now, GMG Union will break ground yet again: We are the first digital media shop to go on an open-ended strike for a fair contract.”

Check Out This List of Demands From Lib Journos… Yikes

The union specified the concerns of the striking laborers on its own website. As an example, it denounced G/O Media for refusing to “codify the widely accepted … standards of care for our trans and gender-expansive colleagues,” as outlined by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and for proposing a salary increase “for our lowest-paid colleagues—and no one else  in the midst of “unexpected inflation” under President Joe Biden.

Employees were extremely critical of their management’s hesitancy to finance “a robust diversity hiring initiative” without very first consulting with the “Diversity Committee” or even to make it possible for the journalists to function from property forever. The alliance has actually asked for “protection from forced relocations to the NYC office,” which is actually reasonable due to the fact that NYC is actually a horrible place to live. The union’s suggestion that management was “offering inadequate family leave” nevertheless, got pushback also from advocates of the strike.

“Support everything here, but describing 12 weeks of parental leave as ‘scant’ and ‘not enough time to recover from a live birth’ is something,” wrote one sympathizer on Twitter, the social networking website. “Former is in line with most of the world (and generous in the US) and the latter contradicts a quick Google search.”

In fact, the 12 weeks of “gender-neutral parental leave” included in the union’s newest deal was actually cited by advocates in 2019 as an example of just how unions are “reducing inequalities” in the writing industry.

The ballot to strike was quite unanimous, with 93 percent of association members taking part. On Tuesday morning, the striking workers demonstrated in front of the G/O Media headquarters in New York City. The union has advised followers “not to click on” or “contribute content to” the websites it represents. “Don’t be a scab,” read some of the signs detected at the demonstration.

The GMG Union developed a GoFundMe page to sustain the striking reporters. Since Tuesday afternoon, it had raised over $25,000, surpassing its first target of $15,000.

H/T The Washington Free Beacon

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