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posted by takyon on Tuesday June 23 2015, @03:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the look-for-the-union-label-hyperlink dept.

The Center for American Progress reports:

[June 3], Gawker Media voted to unionize. The stats: 107 of 118 eligible voters cast secret ballots, 80 of whom voted yes. Just like that, Gawker will become the first digital-only news site to have a union.

Hamilton Nolan, longtime Gawker writer, announced the editorial staff's decision to organize in a post this April. At the time, he listed the motivations: that a union "is the only real mechanism that exists to represent the interest of employees in a company," the continued pursuit of fair and transparent salaries, and the ability to make a little history as the first major site of its kind to organize.

According to Gawker senior writer Sam Biddle, who answered questions via email, "The origin of the union isn't any particular grievance or crisis---we all love our jobs and our workplace, and thought a union would be a great way to protect that, and make it even better for ourselves and our colleagues." In his five years at Gawker, he doesn't recall unionizing being "seriously discussed."

"I think it happened now because the [Writers Guild of America, East] was so enthusiastic about making this happen for us," he said. "It didn't take very much convincing, to be honest."

[...] Both [WGA and Gawker] insist the desire to form a union arose from a desire for the perks of organization, not as a reaction to poor working conditions.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday June 23 2015, @11:29AM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 23 2015, @11:29AM (#199831)

    especially ... Kotaku

    I like the idea of a containment board for insane-tier SJWs and hope they don't go under for that reason. Could you imagine a horde of Kotaku refugees descending on us? Ugh.

    The other sites in their pig sty serve a similar purpose for clickbait. Now you can look at a clickbait headline, look at the gawker in the url, and skip it. But smear that kind of outlook across the entire internet and its going to lower the quality of life for everyone.

    I agree with your evaluation of the quality of their "product" but thats precisely why I hope they stay over there in their own dedicated cesspool instead of corrupting everything.

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  • (Score: 2) by Vanderhoth on Tuesday June 23 2015, @02:32PM

    by Vanderhoth (61) on Tuesday June 23 2015, @02:32PM (#199895)

    Could you imagine a horde of Kotaku refugees descending on us?

    I feel so short sighted now. I hadn't considered what it'd be like when Kotaku goes off like a stink bomb and they spread over the rest of the net... Well there's always Polygon ^_^

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