Mediagazer: NYT tech workers, who are organizing a union, say management is using proven union-busting techniques contrary to NYT's long-held positions on union recognition (Seth Smalley/VICE)

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Seth Smalley / VICE:

NYT tech workers, who are organizing a union, say management is using proven union-busting techniques contrary to NYT's long-held positions on union recognition — Tech workers at the Times are organizing, but rather than recognizing their union, management is running tactics out of a union-busting playbook.

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The FT invited the creator of an interactive website for a story interview, and debuted a nearly identical project a year and a half later with a cursory credit — Innovations in journalistic pilferage at the Financial Times — The website Stealing Ur Feelings accessed your webcam …

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