Onion Inc Union

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The Onion, The A.V. Club, The Takeout, Deadspin, and Onion Inc.'s art, video, and marketing departments. Organized workplace with
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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.

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Writers Guild East Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against G/O Media Amid Fraught Negotiationswww.hollywoodreporter.com The union represents creative staffers at The Onion, The A.V. Club and Deadspin who have threatened to strike if a new deal isn't reached by Jan. 31.

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:

Support a fair contract for WGAE members at Onion, Inc.actionnetwork.org To send a letter, fill out the required fields on this page and tap "Start Writing" At contract negotiations on Thursday, January 11, WGAE members at Onion, Inc. presented G/O Media – Onion, Inc.'s...

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.

Click this link to let G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller know you stand with the Onion Union:

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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.

Support a fair contract for WGAE members at Onion, Inc.wgaea.st To send a letter, fill out the required fields on this page and tap "Start Writing" At contract negotiations on Thursday, January 11, WGAE members at Onion, Inc. presented G/O Media – Onion, Inc.'s...

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!

The Onion has long reported on the many valuable contributions of CEOs within their respective industries. As we bargain for a new contract, we can't help but be reminded of the many great CEOs who have led the way with their cruelty, greed, and bloodlust.

CEO Has Big Ideas To Grow Company’s Problemswww.theonion.com NEW YORK—Laying out several new initiatives and detailed plans for implementing them in the upcoming weeks and months, Janneson Media CEO Adam Hamlin revealed to his staffers Thursday that he has so...

Jim Spanfeller beautified The Onion office today by arranging for the removal of putrid pro-union signs that had previously desecrated the walls. Offices should be blank, windowless, and ideally crumbling to remind employees that they are trapped in a tomb of management's making.

The Onion applauds G/O Media for its commitment to the timeless American ideals of hard work, ceaseless production, perpetually rising output expectations, and static pay rates that lag behind cost of living—the very foundations our country was built on.

The Onion demands fewer rights and urges G/O Media to replace The Onion's workforce entirely with artificial intelligence. AI is a gorgeous efficiency tool that should replace human workers in all sectors, not just digital media.

The Onion would like to congratulate its owner, G/O Media, for standing firm in its return-to-office mandate, as we can think of nowhere more conducive to best-in-class thought leadership than a fluorescent-lit room populated with the abandoned desks of terminated colleagues.

There are 28 days left until our contract expires. ReSkeet to let G/O Media know you support The Onion Union and its right to a fair contract! ✊✊

It's impossible to foster a creative and successful media company if AI content mush is valued over the skills of talented writers, editors, and artists. This is why we're fighting for a fair contract. RT to show your support! ✊

Only 1 month left until our union contract expires! We'd love to start the new year with optimism and not worry about issues like whether our roles will be replaced by AI in 2024.

Fun fact: G/O Media has repeatedly told newly hired employees that the company is not allowed to offer a salary above the union's contract-mandated minimum for each role. This is absolutely untrue, but it sure is a great way for G/O to keep new hire costs down!