Today, New York Times staffers staged the golf clap of protests when about 300 staffers essentially took a smoke break at the same time. Now This News reports the walk out lasted about 10 minutes, which is understandable because oh my god why is it so cold in New York today?
Gorilla Coffee—Park Slope coffee house and bean supplier to indie Brooklyn dripperies—appears to have suffered a total employee walk-out last night. What kind of sweatshop was their "oppressive hipster-in-chief" (a local blog's designation) running?
Rabble Rabble! Viacom Walkout [Flickr]
On Day 2 of The Great Viacom Walkouts of 2007 in Times Square, the "freelancers" were really getting organized. There were better signs ("This is a Kurt Loder of Crap"), more literature ("Let's Find Out If We Really Are Freelancers?"), and a list was being circulated of everyone's personal email addresses, "so we can…
Guess what? Viacom workers are walking out again today (from 3 to 4 p.m.) to protest cuts to their benefits and also their general maltreatment. We hear the creative underclass will be accompanied by lots of staffers today, in a show of delicious solidarity.
Not to be all shallow, but we really want to know who this hot young stage-taker is that lead the chanting at the Viacom walk-out today! We would so share our 401K with him. (If we weren't also contract workers and if we had a 401K. Or, really, knew what one was.) More pictures of the walkout here.
It was the most the most fashionable group involved in a work stoppage ever this afternoon when about two hundred Viacom freelancers and permalancers (most in their twenties), some press and Times Square onlookers gathered in front of 1515 Broadway. For a while they chanted "What the fuck! What the fuck!" until a…
MTV Networks employees are planning a walkout for Monday afternoon, and are spreading the word: "What do we do? Suck it up and deal? Leave the company? There is a third option—50% of the company stands up and says 'WE DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS.'" Walking out is generally associated with student protest groups, like…
