Company’s chief executive warned a union would be ‘an unproven experiment with permanent consequences’
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Internal documents and Slack messages obtained by the Guardian reveal senior executives at the
New York Times are heavily leaning on workers to vote no in a union
election for more than 600 tech employees.
Meredith Kopit Levien, the chief executive of the New York Times Company, wrote a memo on 19 January circulated to staff titled “Why a Tech Union Isn’t Right for Us” on the tech workers’ union election at XFun, the group within the New York Times responsible for product development operations.