So the govt. should control journalism? Sounds Trumpian enough to work.

you don’t seem to understand what being pro-union actually entails.

Go fuck yourself.

He’s as pro-union as anyone in his cubicle farm stuffing down box lunches at their desk because the boss threatened to shitcan anybody who dithers over their selection at the coke machine.

If “anybody” means Joe Ricketts, then, yes, you’re as pro-union as anybody.

Fuck the boss.

“The hand that feeds you”? Lololololol. The only thing the American worker has been fed for the last 30 years is a steaming pile of shit. Wages for the lower and middle classes have grown at a 2-3% rate, while C-suite pay has grown at 10x that. Ever notice how that happened simultaneously with the decline of unions?

Airlines go bankrupt for so many other reasons, your whole response is invalidated by that point.

If you can’t pay your employees a fair wage for a fair week of work, you are a bad business-person.

In this case, along with many of the fine points that have been made before I got here (I read the comments for you that are ungreyed. They are all solid points) unionization of a news outfit, whether it is a newspaper, TV outlet (looking at you CNN) or online source allows for editors to get backing to defend…

You are, in fact, demonstrably *not* as pro-union as anybody. Cheers!

He’s as pro-union as the next guy, as long as the next guy is anti-union.

Dunno how well this applies directly to journalism and media, but, in general, at some point - unions or not - the American business owner and investor class are simply going to have to learn to accept less profit. Not NO profit, just a smaller share. Because we cannot continue cutting and cutting and cutting Labor’s…

Airlines go bankrupt because they’re mismanaged, not because of union employees or poorly bargained contracts.

this is a silly argument. companies that are consistently truly operating in the loss either aren’t employing union labor, or are choosing to operate at a loss.

My understanding of the issue is that they didn’t necessarily form the union over pay and benefits issues (though I’m sure that in an era when most journalists don’t get shit pay and lousy healthcare this was a factor). The bigger issue is that, for the DNAinfo reporters, a bunch of management decisions including…

My favorite bumper sticker: “The Union - the people who brought you the weekend” - and child labor laws, and safety on the job, and.....etc.

That’s the point of collective bargaining. Why on earth would labor bargain a contract that would put the company out of business?

What’s the long term method of offsetting those costs? Raise prices? Increased ad exposure/sales? Paywalls? Online journalism is tough to monetize, and print versions are declining in subscriptions. High quality journalism goes so far if no one is picking up the slightly larger tab.

management has to be willing to take a smaller share of the profits home with them.