Slate management had better stock up on boots … they’re gonna need something to tremble in in light of this announcement from their staff union:
THREAD: 1/ Today, Slate’s union is conducting an hour-long Slack strike to express our unity and commitment to what we’re asking for at the table. We feel these asks are essential to the wellbeing of our workplace.
— Slate Union (@SlateUnion) November 16, 2018
2/ Slate Union is committed to securing union security in our contract. It is essential to a functioning union. Right to Work language is a disingenuous attempt to degrade the labor movement. We’re disappointed management is refusing to remove such language from their proposal.
— Slate Union (@SlateUnion) November 16, 2018
3/ Slate Union is committed to enshrining policies that ensure we’ll collectively adhere to best practices when hiring. This is critical given the lack of diversity in newsrooms, including our own. To that end, we’ve proposed a Rooney Rule, which our management has yet to accept.
— Slate Union (@SlateUnion) November 16, 2018
4/ Slate Union is committed to ensuring living wages and fair compensation for Slate staff. Management has yet to give a meaningful response to the economic proposals we gave them on Sept. 5.
— Slate Union (@SlateUnion) November 16, 2018
5/ Organizing has helped us find a collective voice to speak up for what we would like to see in our workplace. We love Slate and we are invested in our workplace. If you love Slate, please retweet! We appreciate your support! #1u
— Slate Union (@SlateUnion) November 16, 2018
People are retweeting it, all right … to mock the hell out of it.
What is this “Slack strike,” if not some supreme bullsh*t?
An hour-long Slack strike? https://t.co/jlevO0I14y
— Mike Madden (@MikeMadden) November 16, 2018
A Slack-strike is peak millennial https://t.co/er84zlpVUF
— Shaq Diesel (@Shaqalier) November 16, 2018
"slack strike" – think i read about this in das kapital https://t.co/bYy9K48Ply
— Thom (@major_thomm) November 16, 2018
A Slack strike?
Jfc do I want a time machine to get an 1880s coal miner in here to kick your privileged asses https://t.co/bQEa0c6GJE
— Minervas Muse (@minervas_muse) November 16, 2018
An hour long Slack strike. Journalists, man. https://t.co/WPO4QIaOSt
— Sam Bowman (@s8mb) November 16, 2018
A one hour Slack strike sounds like more real productivity imo but you do you. https://t.co/WgyhEDefxU
— Danielle Butcher (@DaniSButcher) November 16, 2018
I’ve been on a Slack strike since Slack was invented. Do I get a raise?
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) November 16, 2018
An hour-long Slack strike?! Nuh uh!! Don't get too wild over there.
Peak Slate.
— Bob Wetsel (@Bwetsel) November 16, 2018
Otherwise known as a lunch break….
— Texarkana Fed ?? (@TexarkanaFed) November 16, 2018
A Slack strike is 100% something that sounds like a joke in a comic novel about the modern workplace.
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) November 16, 2018
"We've had ENOUGH!!! We're not going to *checks notes* message each other for a *double checks notes* full HOUR!! SO THERE!!!" https://t.co/d9aoPc4S2M
— RBe (@RBPundit) November 16, 2018
A Slack strike. An hour-long Slack strike. Yes comrades, that will really show 'em. https://t.co/VQMDvEp8kR
— Philip Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) November 16, 2018
That'll show 'em! ?
— Dark Stormy Knight (@detective27) November 16, 2018
"hour-long slack strike?"
A ferocious step! What's next? A sternly-worded letter?
— Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) November 16, 2018
Whoa, whoa … let’s not get crazy here!
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