Washington Post elevates deinstitutionalization by dividing DSPs income and #PwDs inclusion needs

   It should not be surprising that the WaPo would elevate any criticism of unions as a backhanded clapback at their own unions

 with content written by independent (freelance) reporters to cut the Post’s labor costs despite increasingly protecting their online content with paywalls as print content is protected by shoplifting and loitering laws limiting time skimming print copies in stores.


  The Washington Post was not alone in reducing the pay to journalists in its local circulation area. That reduced pay forced journalists to use new distribution models and e-payment vendors of patreon, substack and email newsletter distribution direct to readers.   Email newsletter distribution directly from journalist to readers also provides a series of authenticated user link clicks to raise pay from publisher to journalist if the journalist is paid by the click.  If paid by the click journalists are the 21st century version of Triangle Shirtwaist (some killed in an infamous factory fire) garment workers paid by the piece as clicks leading to page views or impressions are the practical equivalent of pieces produced.  

  The Washington Examiner expanded its circulation to Maryland by buying the Journal Newspapers in Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties in Maryland and shifting all the employer workplaces 


 A union representation election scheduled for Dec. 12 [2002] at Journal Newspapers Inc. in Maryland was postponed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild obtained an emergency injunction following the layoff of eight newsroom employees, described by the Guild as union supporters, at The Prince George’s Journal in Lanham and The Montgomery Journal in Rockville. In dueling press releases, the community papers complained the union had chosen “to block the democratic process” by asking to halt the election, while the Guild highlighted “unlawful firings and other employer actions aimed at spreading fear among Journal employees and making a fair election impossible.”






to right to work for less Virginia.  



  Journal Newspapers and later Washington Examiner publisher Ryan Phillips insisted on a secret ballot election he likely knew his business would lose without firing pro-union workers to intimidate the remaining workers.  It’s why unions later supported EFCA or card check, as an alternative to secret ballot elections that was banned in 1947 by the Taft Hartley Act, to authorize a union instead of an election back in 2009.