The cuts included all seven members of the BuzzFeed News national desk and its seven-person national security team. Davey Alba, a senior technology reporter, said, by her own estimation, “about 90 percent” of eligible BuzzFeed employees supported the idea. So far, the union effort involves only employees at BuzzFeed News, the division of the company led by Smith. “I think that they will voluntarily recognise it.”Workers at BuzzFeed News are the latest digital media employees to pursue a union effort. So far this year, Vice Media, affiliated with the Writers Guild of America, East, has expanded the number of employees counted as union members, and employees at Refinery29 organised a union, also under the Writers Guild banner.

Source: bd News24 February 13, 2019 09:33 UTC