Washington Post employees have been negotiating with management for 18 months. We still lack a contract that keeps pace with record-level inflation and guarantees workers a living wage. Meanwhile, because of our previous publisher’s mismanagement, the company has tried to balance its books by laying off nearly 40 people in the last year. Then they offered “voluntary” buyouts to another 240 staffers this fall. Now The Post has threatened that if they don’t get enough people to leave, more layoffs will be next.That means fewer Post employees making the critical journalism that keeps our communities informed and holds our public officials accountable. Democracy Dies in Darkness, right?
Time and again, we’ve told the company’s leaders that we’re worth more. They have refused to listen. They have refused to bargain in good faith. They have broken the law again and again.
So we’ve told company leaders that on Dec. 7, we’re striking for 24 hours, because we know there is no Washington Post without us.
Now Post leaders need to hear from you.
hopefully, maybe, it's good enough to get me hired somewhere.
it's fascinating how our whole infrastructure basically relies on either predatory investors gambling that they can build a userbase and find a way to milk them, or on ad money being manipulated by the whims of billionaires and faceless megacorps.
nothing is sacred or safe, everything we rely on is prone to dying at any moment, and everything we say and do is being sold to the highest bidder and used to try and sell us shit.
i have a deep, deep loathing of capitalism for all of this.
I keep getting this tumblr ad that's this girl who I recognize as being some incredibly popular TikTok influencer named Miranda or something and what she's saying is "This is the game I play when I just want to get away from my thoughts it's called Monopoly it's based on the classic board game" and then I always scroll passed before it goes further but it drives me insane because this girl's aesthetic is that she is that girl who is like the queen bee popular girl perfect encapsulates everything a Gen Z girlie sets out to be rules the cafeteria/college dining hall oozes that nonchalant cool vibe in the exact way they love and I'm just imagining like being at her school I'm in the dining hall and like oh my gd it's Mandy or whatever her name is the most popular girl on campus and she waves me over to her table I'm so flustered and I try to act cool and I carry my try of grammable meats over to her table and sit totally nonchalant and I say "Oh hey Maggie or whatever watcha doing" and she looks at me and she gives the slightest of smiles she looks me in the eyes like I'm in on something only for the two of us and she says "Oh I'm just playing this game I like to play whenever I want to get away from my thoughts, you know? It's so cool. It's called Monopoly" and she shows me her latest iPhone Pro Max in some trendy case and she's playing fucking shitty CGI monopoly on her phone she's trying to roll doubles to get out of jail she's playing the boot "I always play the boot" she says and I say "That's so cool Nandos. You always know about the best obscure little things nobody has heard of. I'm so glad you share your discoveries with us. I'm going to download Monopoly to my latest iPhone right now. Thanks for the rec. You have so much Rizz." and then I open my phone and instead of downloading monopoly I take a picture of my lunchmeats to post on Instagram, making sure I get just a bit of Mandela Effect herself in frame so everyone can see or speculate that I'm eating at the same table as Moravia and then I quietly sit there eating my meats and we do not talk or look at each other at all for the rest of lunch.