“Juneteenth Is a Pretty Aggressive Holiday to Take Hostages With”: NYT Union Views New Holiday Schedule as Latest Union-Busting Bid

The temperature is heating up again inside The New York Times, where union members see a recent announcement about company-wide holidays as the company’s latest attempt to discourage their tech colleagues from organizing. At an all-company meeting earlier this month, management added new days off to the holiday calendar—Juneteenth, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Veterans Day, and two “global days off”—but said that it could only extend the holidays to non-unionized employees and unionized staff at Wirecutter. That move prompted the NewsGuild of New York to file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Tuesday, accusing the Times of… Read Full Article