(At the same time, no one is required or ordered to share - this is, after all, a secret ballot, and you don’t need to justify your reasons to anyone.)Īt the same time indeed! Unfortunately, Kinja, Gawker’s premiere commenting platform, is impossible to use, so you won’t have the time or energy to sift through 800 randomly threaded comments to find out what anyone said.
I’m hoping the post will be, in the true spirit of Kinja®, a open forum for discussion, not a rolling list of “yes” and “no,” and I expect staffers from all sites and in all roles to contribute no matter how they feel or how they’re planning to vote. Pretty wild stuff! It’s the fastest thing anyone has ever done.įortunately, since none of us like suspense, Max Read, who is the top editor at Gawker, but who qualifies for this union as an equivalent to a TV-style “showrunner,” if you follow that logic, and I sort of do and sort of don’t, sent around a memo to encourage everyone to post on Gawker how they were planning on secretly voting. Because Gawker Media majority owner Nick Denton doesn’t oppose the union at all - it appeals to his trouble-making streak, and he thinks it’ll have interesting ripple effects towards places like Vice - the Gawker office hops directly from “hey let’s have a union” to a majority-rule vote in under six weeks.
#LEAH FINNEGAN GAWKER HOW TO#
This coming Wednesday, June 3rd, all Gawker Media employees - except foreigners, freelancers, two top manager-editors with whom the buck is said to stop, and of course the entire business side, because what would any of them know about how to conduct business or negotiate - will secretly vote on whether to join the WGA East and become a union shop.
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