New York Times tech workers to strike over return-to-office rules
New York Times tech workers to strike over return-to-office rules
www.reuters.com
New York Times tech workers to strike over return-to-office rules
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nearly 700 workers will hold demonstrations on Zoom and outside the company's headquarters
so glad to read the strike will allow WFH via Zoom
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Honestly, depending on the particulars of how that type of thing fits into the bigger picture, that could unironically be good?
Physical protests are the most visible form of protest currently, but any way for immunocompromised people and others for whom it's not safe to be out in the crowd to still contribute is probably a good thing.
And I'm sure the internet is clever enough to come up with a way to amplify those voices effectively eventually.
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I'm picturing them deploying drones they can zoom call into so they can strike from home and also attack scabs like in The Birds
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This is a really innovative way to reinforce their message that WFH is just as good.
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I can only imagine the hellish commute a NYT tech worker must endure. Let them work from wherever the fuck they want.
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many cities have absolutely terribad traffic.
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That's because cities are often under the populace estimate to be taking the transit they provide. Wfh for jobs that shouldn't require someone to clog the system further and be forced to add to emissions would be the easiest and most efficient fix.
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Tech workers often don’t make enough money for it to make sense to live in the city long term unless it’s really important to them. If they have kids, this goes double. A lot of people commute from upstate and that is a hellish commute, even by train.
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NYC has a housing crisis and MTA is frankly quite shit compared to most public transportation in the world. They have a lot of lines into Manhatten, which is good for NYT, but no circumferential traffic, and delays are frequent. MTA is massively underfunded.
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Most tech workers probably live in the suburbs and the public transit from the burbs into the city both suck and are insanely expensive.
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So because they have high salaries they need to work in an office? I'm not seeing how that's related.
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Dude. Have you ever ridden the NY subway? It sucks.
And the bigger issue is the amount of time taken out of the day by a commute when it's not needed for the vast majority of tech workers.
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I feel guilty. Without a commute I haven't read this ever growing stack of New Yorkers and The Atlantic. I'm joking, but serious. Car commute is terrible. When you commute on half decent public transit, you can do shit and was kind of a part of my day to day rhythm. On good days it was almost meditative.
But seriously, who the fuck are these trolls suggesting real tech workers don't live in NYC. Yeah, the dream is actually living in Jersey City said no one that has money in NYC
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A half day strike is not enough, telling them ahead of time how long your strike will last is not how to do it.
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This is what I learned from the subreddit strikes.
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It's fine for the first time, as long as it's followed up with the threat of an indefinite strike
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Fuck yeah. Stay strong.
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I got spam from zoom telling me how to use their tools to better work from home less than a couple of weeks after zoom announced a mandatory return to work policy.
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Great, another NYT paywall…
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well thats not the full strike, many are striking from home
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IMO that whole paper has been on strike since A.G. Sulzberger took over.
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Eric Adams amgy
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