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Condé Union @condeunion.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United
on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands
Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue.
These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action.
Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company.
Condé United members illegally fired are:
Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader
Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House
Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union
Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit
“Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

it is now possible to transfer your spotify playlists seamlessly to other listening apps btw

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

gotta say this whole business about ‘electing a muslim mayor is basically pissing on the graves of 9/11 victims’ is just…just shockingly racist stuff i mean what else is there to say about it

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If they're unable to bring themselves to consider nuclear options like withholding unanimous consent the bare minimum they can do is wheel a bunch of cancer patients out in front of cameras to say "Donald Trump is trying to murder me." If it's gonna be performance at least make it good performance.

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Saint JESSICA DUNN ROVINELLI @jdrllc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I was fired from Telfar, a fashion company beloved by and marketing to trans people, for being transgender, along with every other trans employee at that time. In this moment, one of the best things you can do to protect trans lives is to hire us.

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claire shaffer @claireeshaffer.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

what if we kissed on the budding social network

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The news reporting on Elon

slave to Woke
the only time isaid the "N word" i said it with perfect frequency/timing to intercept & cancel out the sound waves of another guy saying it,

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 29/09/2023

casino pier from beach, seaside heights, new jersey, 1978

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claire shaffer @claireeshaffer.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

“let me stick it to the U.S.A. by watching the fun gay cowboy movie, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, what fun will be had” – a naive woman seconds from disaster

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claire shaffer @claireeshaffer.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

I feel no type of way about Greta Gerwig’s career trajectory, but it is pretty hilarious to suddenly decide she’s a sellout about 32 months into the Barbie marketing campaign

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claire shaffer @claireeshaffer.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

idk what The Idol’s plot is and I refuse to watch, but I feel like Abel Tesfaye was put on this earth to star in a Phantom of the Paradise remake

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

don’t know how many more social media migrations i got in me. like a dozen or fourteen at most

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claire shaffer @claireeshaffer.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

what if we kissed on the budding social network

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