On Jan 31st, 2027, we hope to sign a contract that will represent our few, but mighty remaining members. We consider ourselves lucky to enter bargaining with optimism. May all workers get the fair contracts they deserve!
But now, under new management, we are terrified. What could the contract of a fair and equitable media company that respects and uplifts their employees look like?
Under our former owners, we fought to keep salaries low in order to enrich our corporate overlords. To degrade our editorial independence in pursuit of hundreds, if not thousands of programmatic ad dollars. And to lay off enough workers to buy our former CEO a beach house.
Today marks one year until our current contract expires. While we will miss the days of The Onion being systematically dismantled and stripped for parts by private equity, we are nonetheless excited to bargain with new management.
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More to come, but we're thrilled to announce that we've reached a tentative agreement. We're proud to bring this to our unit for ratification. ✊
The Onion Union's contract expires at midnight tonight. We are committed to bargaining in good faith and securing a fair contract for our talented and hardworking members.
With three days left of bargaining, management refused to be physically present during in-person sessions. We can think of no greater indignity than having to look employees in the eye when they are nothing more than faceless numbers representing wasted cost on a spreadsheet.
Today, The Onion Union and its allies distributed flyers outside our Chicago, NYC, and LA offices. We regret wasting time in the physical world when we should be creating digital content to be clogged with ads and SEO terms designed to game search engines.
The writers of The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, Late Night With Seth Meyers, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert stand with The Onion Union! Solidarity ✊
Today, members and friends of The Onion Union braved the rain and distributed hundreds of flyers outside G/O Media's offices. Send a letter to G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller demanding a fair contract for The Onion Union! actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
This morning, our sister union GMG (with whom we share our offices and beloved CEO) defaced their desks with filthy pro-union signs showing their support. We demand that G/O Media management take down these acts of solidarity as soon as possible!
Today, supporters of The Onion Union distributed flyers outside the offices of Great Hill Partners, the private equity firm that owns G/O Media, to demand a fair contract. Click here to let them know you agree! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Thank you so much to @adamconover.bsky.social, @joshgondelman.bsky.social, and @zhubinparang.bsky.social for joining us at the bargaining table this morning to present a pledge from former Onion contributors to support our fight for a fair contract.
Our CEO Jim Spanfeller rightly declines to speak to his disgusting employees, but there's one group of people he'll gladly engage with: his almighty bosses at private equity firm Great Hill Partners. Click to demand Onion Union workers receive fair pay:
Listen to @adamconover.bsky.social!
Link: www.businessinsider.com/go-media-jim...
As America's Finest News Source for the past 258 years, The Onion could not have made it here without the managerial prowess of G/O Media, whose trailblazing strategy of blanketing webpages in blaring advertisements has led the digital media industry to where it stands today.
Stand in solidarity with @onionunion.bsky.social by sending a letter directly to G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller! wgaea.st/Onion-ReadyToStrike
Friendly reminder: 97% of the of the Onion Union bargaining unit has declared they're ready to strike if a fair contract isn't reached by January 31.
The Onion applauds its owner, G/O Media, for its many savvy business decisions that have driven away all but our most loyal readers. We prefer an audience faithful enough to go through hell and back to access our reportage.
🚨🚨🚨 There are exactly 2 weeks until our contract expires 🚨🚨🚨
The Onion applauds its parent company, G/O Media, for its targeted termination of the many irksome editors who impede perpetual content churn with their insistence upon fact-checking and copyediting.
Yesterday, our union delivered a strike pledge signed by over 97% of our unit to management. We are prepared to fight for the contract we deserve!
