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Bernie Sanders Rebukes BuzzFeed for ‘Stalling Tactics’ in Union Negotiations

Sen. Bernie Sanders offered a finger-wagging rebuke to BuzzFeed on Tuesday after their union blasted the company on Twitter for lack of progress in recognition talks.“Let’s not forget that the middle class was built by organized labor. I am very concerned to see that @BuzzFeed still hasn’t...

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Sen. Bernie Sanders offered a finger-wagging rebuke to BuzzFeed on Tuesday after their union blasted the company on Twitter for lack of progress in recognition talks.

“Let’s not forget that the middle class was built by organized labor. I am very concerned to see that @BuzzFeed still hasn’t recognized the union formed by its newsroom employees,” Sanders said in a tweet. “Our Workplace Democracy Act will put an end to corporations getting away with these stalling tactics.”

Sanders is running in a crowded field of Democrats this year seeking the party’s 2020 presidential nomination. Polls have consistently shown him among the most competitive early candidates heading into the first debate next month.

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After several weeks of tense calm, BuzzFeed’s union reps opened up another salvo against the company this week, accusing them of unfair demands and stalling on talks.

“About a month ago, we shared news about progress towards recognition of our union. But since then, the company has dragged its feet and failed to address some of our most pressing concerns. It’s now been 112 days since we went public,” they said in a lengthy Twitter thread spelling out a list of grievances. “We need the company’s representatives to fully engage in a good-faith, detailed conversation and commit to solutions so that we can finish this recognition process and get to the real work — negotiating a collective bargaining agreement.”

Many of the concerns centered around which BuzzFeed employees would be welcome to participate in the union, with the thread suggesting the company was looking for a restrictive agreement that would keep out employees with “non-standard contracts.”

“We have continued to engage in productive, active conversations with the union–especially over the past several weeks. We are now very close to resolving a handful of outstanding issues that will allow BuzzFeed to voluntarily recognize the union,” the company said in a statement to TheWrap over the issue.

Bernie Sanders is now the second presidential candidate to have issued a formal rebuke to BuzzFeed over their failure to recognize the union. In April, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (who is also running for president) got into a back and forth with the company over the union issue as well.

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“Memo to @BuzzFeedNews: New York City is a union town. You didn’t just snub @bfnewsunion yesterday, you insulted all working New Yorkers. To the union: This city stands with you. To the management: Come. To. The. Table,” de Blasio said.

“This process is not going to benefit from the involvement of a deeply unpopular mayor who has expressed an open disdain for journalists during his time in office,” BuzzFeed shot back.

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Unionization — always on the back-burner at BuzzFeed — came to the fore in a big way this year after the company was forced to layoff roughly 220 people, accounting for about 15% of all staff in January. BuzzFeed executives said at the time that the layoffs were necessary to hep position the company to become profitable.

BuzzFeed’s harshest critics over the union continued to emanate from the company’s own employees, who took our their knives for their employers with abandon after the union’s critical assessment of progress.

“BuzzFeed tries to portray itself as a woke company, but during this union process, executives continue to be disrespectful and dishonest to their own workforce. They need to step up immediately and fix this — recognize our union!” said reporter Dominic Holden in a tweet.

“Being gaslit by the company you’ve worked for for nearly 5 years is not a fun experience!” added reporter Ema O’Connor. “Pls, do your homework, participate in meetings, read our emails fully, be straightforward in your responses, and do what you say you want to do: Recognize us!”

 

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[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

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[TheRedChair]

Do you agree that BuzzFeed writers need to band together to keep their talents from being exploited? Really curious.

I think they all need to learn to code... Remember, The Internet Never Forgives,... The Internet Never Forgets.

 

[Sped Xing]

I bite my nose at Bernie

 

[CaesarCzech]

Bernie is dumbass but he actually seems like someone who is genuine rather than Scammer.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Bernie is dumbass but he actually seems like someone who is genuine rather than Scammer.

It's funny to see a conversation circle back around for another lap like this...

 

[CaesarCzech]

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To be fair Wage increase makes sense, IF you have low unemployment and companies dont have enought people, You increase mandatory wages, Those who are not competent enought to afford it go out of business, leading to job loss, leading to more people searching for jobs, leading to workforce avalible to fill the jobs for more succesfull companies. you have to have genuinely low unemployment and actual shortage of people, rather than just companies whining about not having cheap workforce, but it balances things, increases wages, leaves unemployment stangant or slight increase while ensuring the more competent companies survive and can grow further, you are essential forcing survival of the fittest on the companies to increase life quality for employees. it helps avoid workforce shortage, wage stagnation, Massive imigration as suddenly you dont need so many people since there arent so many free jobs but people are employed still and at more effective companies thus aiding economic growth, Balancing the market and its good for more employes and more competent companies while it leaves the weak companies to be slain by the market since they can no longer exploit the workforce.


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[TowinKarz]

Bernie once said bread lines were a "good thing" and that the Venezuelan model circa 03' - 05' was the way of the future, when even then it was widely understood by economists that all the sudden wealth they had was massive debt spending built on loans by foreign investors (good ol' capitalist exploiters) with repayment based only on the belief that even their lousy-grade crude would be worth $800 a barrel by 2025 because muh Peak Oil or something..... He doesn't understand shit about economics.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Bernie once said bread lines were a "good thing" and that the Venezuelan model circa 03' - 05' was the way of the future, when even then it was widely understood by economists that all the sudden wealth they had was massive debt spending built on loans by foreign investors (good ol' capitalist exploiters) with repayment based only on the belief that even their lousy-grade crude would be worth $800 a barrel by 2025 because muh Peak Oil or something..... He doesn't understand shit about economics.

Sure he does. You wake up at noon, go stand in the breadline, putter around giving random speeches to anyone who will listen to a crazy old man with wild hair. When you get bored, or need some pocket money, you throw an election and/or write a best selling book for a few millions.

Is that not how life works in Venezuela?

 

[Henry Bemis]

You bite your thumb at someone, not your tongue. They both make no sense, but Shakespeare came up with the thumb thing.

Or if, you want to get technical, you don't bite your thumb at someone, but you do bite your thumb. That's how one avoids a quarrel, sir.