BuzzFeed's CEO Jonah Peretti was not moved by the staff walkout.
Staffers in the news division, who went public with their union effort about four months ago, staged a walkout this afternoon in an effort to force BuzzFeed chief executive officer Jonah Peretti to voluntarily recognize the unit and its demands. But Peretti doesn’t seem poised to back down.
Peretti said in his note that the current proposal is “the product of more than three months of discussions and negotiations with the NewsGuild” and said BuzzFeed’s news staff is now “seeking to impose additional demands that threaten our progress around voluntary recognition.” The first regards which workers are included in the official bargaining unit, an issue from early on in contract negotiations and a relatively common area of disagreement in union bargaining contracts.
Peretti claims that the union is pushing for oversight control of any individual employment contracts in the interim period, something he said is “not acceptable for us as a business or as a world-class news organization.” “Throughout the process, BuzzFeed has attempted to exclude workers they claim are managerial, supervisory, or confidential despite the fact that these journalists neither manage employees nor are privy to confidential information,” NewsGuild wrote in a statement on the walkout.
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