Reference: New York Times Made Staff Nix Pro-Union Images, Guild Says (msn.com)
In 2007, the New York Times ran an editorial (Opinion | The Right to Organize – The New York Times (nytimes.com)) endorsing legislation that would have required employers to recognize a union for its employees purely on the basis of a so-called majority “card check,” rather than insist on a secret ballot election administered by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”). The editorial claimed that “in a disturbingly high number of cases, the employer uses the time before the vote to pressure employees to rethink their decision to unionize.” This position certainly is and was in keeping with the NYT’s notorious lefty politics and is what we have come to expect from the rag.
However, when its own employees want a union and claim to have enough signed authorization cards for a majority of the employees in that group, the NYT’s own liberalism evaporates and its response could have been written by the Trumpians. Sorry, no card check, no voluntary recognition of the union, you have to go through the lengthy NLRB process in which we get to harangue and harass and pressure employees about how evil unions are.
That is, the NYT now decides it wants to “use[] the time before the vote to pressure employees to rethink their decision to unionize.” Must be nice to be able to have your cake and eat it too; the flexibility of the ordinarily inflexible liberal mind when its own self-interest it at stake is remarkable, isn’t it? If the National Review or the Wall Street Journal took that position they would be excoriated on leftist social media and by the NYT editorial staff, but when it’s the NYT, not a peep.