This is just fantastic. Cenk Uygur, the meathead moron at “The Young Turks,” is all upset because his employees want to unionize. Yes. Really. From Huffington Post:
Earlier that day, a Twitter handle claiming to represent TYT employees had announced on the social media platform their intention to form a union. In the staff meeting, the network’s co-founder and influential host, Cenk Uygur, urged employees not to do so, arguing that a union does not belong at a small, independent outlet like TYT, according to two workers who were present. He said if there had been a union at the network it would not have grown the way it has.
His talk ― at times emotional, the staffers said, with Uygur throwing his papers to the ground at one point, and chastising an employee ― seemed to contradict the progressive, worker-first ethos that TYT broadcasts to its millions of lefty followers. Jack Gerard, who is acting as the company’s chief operating officer as Uygur runs for Congress in California, told the staff they were not discouraging unionization.
But the message from Uygur was clear ― and, to at least some staffers, discouraging.
“We generally feel disappointed, but unshaken,” said one staffer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. “We feel it’s the right thing to do because of what TYT values.”
Incredible. He fully admits that he thinks other companies should have unions, but not his:
In an interview with HuffPost, Uygur said he is a strong supporter of unions, especially at large corporations that aren’t sharing profits with their workers. But he said he worries a unionized workforce would bring new legal and bureaucratic costs that TYT can’t sustain. The network has a growing subscription base and has raised venture capital money, but faces many of the same headwinds as other online media dealing with the collapse of ad revenue.
“The reality is we’re in a precarious position,” Uygur said. “We’re in a digital media landscape where almost no one makes money or is sustainable.”
Yet another hypocrite among the far left democrats. SO he wants unions when it hurts the bottom line against big companies, but his own company can’t afford unionize. I mean, what else is there to say?
This is union-busting, plain and simple. I call on @CenkUygur and @TheYoungTurks to follow their principles and voluntarily recognize the card authorization vote of @TYTunion. https://t.co/J561GTptff
— Richard Trumka (@RichardTrumka) February 24, 2020
By the way, he’s also running for Katie Hill’s seat after she resigned for banging her underlings. Nice!