"Unionization for me, but not for thee"���Jonah Peretti: ...

"Unionization for me, but not for thee"���Jonah Peretti: Alexia Fern��ndez Campbell: BuzzFeed News Walkout: "Managers at the popular news website, which employs more than 200 journalists in the US, have been fighting... about how many employees can join the bargaining unit, according to a statement BuzzFeed News Union shared with Vox.... BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti said the union won���t accept a proposal to define which positions would be part of the bargaining unit before recognition, and won���t agree to honor individual contracts while they negotiate a collective bargaining contract.... The company���s offer would recognize 77 journalists in the bargaining unit���far fewer than the union wants...

Jonah Peretti (2001): My Nike Media Adventuren: "As a challenge to Nike, I ordered a pair of shoes customized with the word 'sweatshop' Nike rejected my request... correspondence.... None of Nike���s messages addressed the company���s legendary labor abuses, and their avoidance of the issue created an impression even worse than an admission of guilt. In mid-January I forwarded the whole e-mail correspondence to a dozen friends, and since that time it has raced around the Internet, reaching millions of people...

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