Live Unions at 3 Condé Nast Publications Authorize Strike: Live Updates RIGHT NOW U.S. personal spending fell in February, a month between federal relief payments. In the case of The New Yorker Union, negotiations with Condé Nast have dragged out for more than two years. Credit... Amy Lombard for The New York Times Union workers at The New Yorker, Pitchfork and Ars Technica said Friday they had voted to authorize a strike as tensions over contract negotiations with Condé Nast, the owner of the publications, continued to escalate. The unions, which are affiliated with the NewsGuild of New York, which also represents employees at The New York Times, have been separately working toward first-time contracts with Condé Nast. If we find any of it, we route it out.” Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sundar Pichai of Google and Jack Dorsey of Twitter testified remotely before Congress on “misinformation and disinformation plaguing online platforms.” Credit Credit...

Source: International New York Times March 26, 2021 11:54 UTC