The union fights plaguing media companies

Axios Re:Cap

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4.5 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The New York Times, Buzzfeed and Gannett all find themselves embroiled in union fights with their employees that are playing out publicly. Host Felix Salmon is joined by Sara Fischer to discuss what we know about the union fights at these three companies and what they tell us about broader tensions between employees and management in the workforce.

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0:00.0	I'm Felix Salmon and welcome to Axios Recap, where we dig into one big story.
0:09.9	Today is Tuesday, December the 7th, and we are focused on Labor Relations.
0:20.6	There were two big pieces of news in the media world this week.
0:25.0	Yesterday, BuzzFeed went public and promptly saw its valuation fall off a cliff.
0:29.5	It is now looking decidedly short of the cash it needs if it's going to be able to grow and thrive.
0:36.3	Then, today, the National Labor Relations Board came down hard on another publisher,
0:41.3	Gannett, which publishes a whole bunch of newspapers across the country, including USA Today.
0:47.0	Gannett is accused of union busting.
0:49.7	It has apparently been interrogating employees about their union activities.
0:53.0	It's even insinuated that those
0:55.0	activities were being surveilled. That's a no-no. That's a big fight with the NLRB. After the break,
1:02.3	I'm going to talk to Axios media reporter Sarah Fisher about all of these fights between capital
1:07.6	and labor that are going on in the media world, not just Gannett, not just BuzzFeed,
1:12.5	because they have a big fight with their union right now, but even at the New York Times,
1:16.2	it's happening all over, and we are going to talk about what we can learn from those fights
1:20.2	about labor relations more broadly.
1:25.2	So I'm joined by Axios's Sarah Fisher.
1:28.2	Welcome, Sarah.
1:29.9	Hey, Felix.
1:31.1	You have been writing about labor versus capital issues in the media industry for a while now.
1:38.3	And there is no shortage of them.
1:40.5	And the one that is in the news right now is BuzzFeed. First of all, we had a lot of news from the
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