The End is Near: LA Times Newsroom Moves to Unionize

Now I know that the end is near for the Los Angeles Times and the Tribune parent company as a whole. The moment that reporters demand to unionize, they are cutting off their noses to spite their face.

Another network of reporters along the East Coast did the same thing, and the owner of the parent company simply shut down the print business. A business owner has to reap a profit margin to justify the business. Unions seem to think that they can organize and agitate to get more money and benefits. The laws of supply and demand do not permit

  

Los Angeles Times journalists take step to unionize newsroom

A committee representing newsroom employees of the Los Angeles Times took an initial step Monday to form a union by asking the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election.

Wow. This is progressive leftist ideology taken to its self-immolating extreme. What are they thinking? Do they really believe that unionization will stop the steady declining of the dishonest, decrepit mainstream media?

I don't think so!

Earlier this year, a group of more than 40 Times journalists launched efforts to have the NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America represent the newsroom in collective bargaining. The election filing, made by the guild on behalf of the Times employees, comes after years of steep declines in print advertising, staff cutbacks and management turnover.

The committee said it expects the election, which would be overseen by the NLRB, to be conducted next month.

"Years of steep declines" is music to my ears, and to the hearts of conservatives and freedom-loving patriots all over the country.

Why have their been years of decline for the newspaper industry in general, and for the Los Angeles Times in particular?

1. Declines in print advertising. There is too much easy advertising opportunity online and through mobile apps. The print costs are too great, and print media is too slow and expensive.

2. Staff cutbacks. Why? No money, no revenue.

3. Management turnover--see above.

I would further add that competing news sources which actually report the truth are eating into the establishment media dominance and their chase for the consumers' dollars.

No longer will average readers and consumers put with the lies, distortions, and outright cheating of the liberal mainstream media. Their anti-capitalist, anti-liberty, anti-national bias has been fully exposed, and none of the readership across the country will settle for it any longer.

Forming a union is not going to help the declining readership and revenue

"The Los Angeles Times is a great paper, and it will only be better with a democratic newsroom," said Bernie Lunzer, president of the NewsGuild-CWA in Washington, D.C. "This is a chance to have a seat at the table."

It's not a great newspaper, and it already has been a democratic newsroom, or more accurately a Democratic, as in Democratic Party, newsroom. There is nothing more to see here, folks. The left-wing press propaganda is going down in flames, and they can't stop the hurting.

What should anyone of us think when one of their reporters, Hailey Branson, looks up to anti-Semites who declared that "The Jews should get the hell out of Palestine."

Ross Levinsohn, the publisher of The Times, declined to comment.

He was probably cleaning out his office, since he's going to be out of job soon, too.

The NewsGuild, formed in 1933, represents 25,000 journalists, including reporters, columnists, copy editors, graphic designers, photojournalists and others. The Times is one of the few major U.S. newspapers whose journalists are not part of a union.

Now that they are joining, they will soon be joining the ranks of the unemployed.

I say good. They have engaged in too many lies, distortions, and outright unsound hatred of President Trump, conservatives, and the whole country.

According to the NLRB website, L.A. Times press operators held a separate union organization election last week to decertify their union. Preliminary results showed that 85 of the newspaper’s 90 press operators voted in an election that ended Nov. 30. Of those, 50 workers voted to join the Graphic Communications Conference/International Brotherhood of Teamsters union and 35 voted against.

They are running to any other union which they think has more clout and can fight harder.

Not working. Bigger unions are not making America Work Again. Unions have fallen into the corrupt habit of representing themselves and not the workers whom they claim to support. Unions are hurting working people, and the press has been complicit in the harm to working Americans.

The liberal medial, including the Los Angeles Times, has attacked Trump supporters of all ages and backgrounds. They promote the fears and concerns of illegal aliens, while ignoring the devastating impact of illegal immigration on Americans of all backgrounds.

They have played the race card repeatedly against conservatives and Republicans in general, even though racism, sexism, and other forms of invidious bigotry have overwhelmed the Democratic Party's ranks and progressives in general for decades. The media double-standard has been one of the most damaging to this country.

But at least the corrupt, liberal press is going down, along with Hollywood and Academia, major institutions dedicated to pushing a wicked cultural Marxist narrative. So glad to see the press going down like this. They deserve to go up in flames.