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It's Official: Onion Inc.’s Groveling, Ungrateful Staffers Unionize
Onion Inc Union
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Onion Inc Union
@OnionIncUnion
Chicago, IL
Joined March 2018
- The Onion would like to congratulate its owner, G/O Media, for standing firm in its return-to-office mandate, as we can think of nowhere more conducive to best-in-class thought leadership than a fluorescent-lit room populated with the abandoned desks of terminated colleagues.
- UPDATE: The seven A.V. Club workers in Chicago have decided to take their union-contract-protected severances rather than move to L.A. without a cost-of-living adjustment. A statement from the union (1/X):
- Devastating: These Coworkers All Wore The Same Shirt To Their First Contract Bargaining Meeting
- Jim Spanfeller beautified The Onion office today by arranging for the removal of putrid pro-union signs that had previously desecrated the walls. Offices should be blank, windowless, and ideally crumbling to remind employees that they are trapped in a tomb of management's making.
- The Onion Union Begs Congress For A Sweetheart Deal With No Sick Days Like The One They Gave Railway Workers
- Last month, G/O management told its seven Chicago-based A.V. Club employees that they either had to move to Los Angeles to work in the company’s new office there or lose their jobs. The employees were not offered cost-of-living increases. 1/X gawker.com/media/av-club-…
- Yesterday, our union delivered a strike pledge signed by over 97% of our unit to management. We are prepared to fight for the contract we deserve.
- Replying to @OnionIncUnionThey would have liked to have continued working at A.V.C. But it’s not reasonable for G/O Media to expect people to uproot their lives for a pay cut and to commute every day to an inconveniently located office for a company that treats its employees the way G/O does. 2/X
- Replying to @OnionIncUnionThe Chicago-based employees comprise seven of the nine A.V. Club staff members with the longest tenures. It seems clear that G/O Media wants to push out these veteran employees in order to replace them with lower-paid workers. 3/X
- Replying to @OnionIncUnionThe move also works to dismantle The A.V. Club’s reputation for pop culture criticism created by incisive outsiders who are unbeholden to the industries they cover, in favor of converting it into a more generic “entertainment” site. 4/X
- Replying to @OnionIncUnionThe A.V. Club will be losing its managing editor, film editor, TV editor, associate editor, senior writer, assistant editor, and editorial coordinator. These workers oversee the site’s film, TV, music, comics, and books coverage, and are essential to its daily operations. 5/X
