Last week, executive editor Kevin Merida abruptly resigned amid tensions with Soon-Shiong, the Times reported. According to the Guild statement, management is asking the union to remove senior protections from its union contract in order to secure more freedom to select which employees to lay off. Ahead of the walkout, union members reported losing access to their company Slack accounts. Contreras later added that employees showing support for the demonstration lost access to their Times email accounts. The Guild is a unit of Media Guild of the West, a local group for media workers in Southern California, Arizona and Texas under The NewsGuild-CWA.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 20, 2024 00:12 UTC