{"id":133443,"date":"2021-02-15T11:08:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=133443"},"modified":"2021-02-15T11:28:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:28:30","slug":"new-york-times-union-hijacked-by-woke-activists-employees-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-union-hijacked-by-woke-activists-employees-say\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Union Hijacked By Woke Activists, Employees Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-union-hijacked-by-woke-activists-employees-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=133443&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1134268935-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Following the drama surrounding the resignation of a New York Times veteran science reporter, employees inside the company have said the union designed to protect them is now more concerned with being \u201cwoke\u201d than protecting employees.<\/p>\n<p>Several Times employees <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/union-or-woke-activist-group-new-york-times-employees-raise-questions-about-guilds-role-in-recent-dismissals\/\">spoke<\/a> to the Washington Free Beacon, detailing the problems within the New York Times Guild, the employee union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people I\u2019m supposed to go to if I have a problem with management are the same ones who might try to get me fired,\u201d one union member told the&nbsp;outlet.&nbsp;\u201cThe union is the last place I would go for support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sentiment is a far cry different than a statement put out by the union last June, in which it declared: \u201cJournalists are not expendable. Employers are attempting to undermine our collective strength and security.\u201d The Guild went on to say that it was \u201cfighting to preserve our right to due process and to ensure fairness and equity \u2014 particularly for our BIPOC colleagues \u2014 by maintaining this essential safeguard against unjust [discipline.]\u201d (Side note: while the Times union demands a right to due process, the paper has actively attacked attempts to provide those same rights to college students.)<\/p>\n<p>While the union said last year that it would protect its members, it seems to have changed its tune after allegations of racism were lodged against Donald McNeil, a four-decade veteran of the news paper who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-times-reporter-resigns-amid-allegations-he-used-a-racial-slur-in-2019-ignore-context-and-intent\">resigned<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Employees who spoke to the Free Beacon described how Times union members signed a letter to management \u201cdemanding a more thorough investigation of his conduct after an initial probe led to a wrist slap.,\u201d the Free Beacon reported. McNeil had been disciplined for his alleged behavior on a \u201cTimes Journeys\u201d expedition to Peru to study health care in the region. The trips have been around since 2012, but as Times media columnist Ben Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/14\/business\/media\/new-york-times-donald-mcneil.html\">explained<\/a> on Sunday, they became complicated to manage &nbsp;\u2014 particularly in the summer of 2019, after The Times began hosting teenagers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was those teenagers \u2013 none of whom were black \u2013 that made the allegations against McNeil, which ranged from vague claims that the reporter \u201cmade racist and sexist remarks throughout the trip\u201d to the main allegation that McNeil repeated the \u201cn-word\u201d when asking for clarification from a student about whether a classmate should have been disciplined for using the word in a video when they were 12. McNeil said he asked the student what context the other student used the slur, repeating it while doing so.<\/p>\n<p>The Times union didn\u2019t directly call for McNeil\u2019s firing, but prominent members did, according to those who spoke to the Free Beacon. The members who spoke to the outlet said reporter Davey Alba and cultural critic Amanda Hess led the charge to fire McNeil even after he had already been disciplined.<\/p>\n<p>The union has a legal obligation to *represent* people in discipline and to follow due process,\u201d Alba <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveyalba\/status\/1358798656355336200\">argued<\/a> on Twitter. \u201cWe are not defense attorneys. If someone harassed someone or acted in a matter deemed unacceptable, it can still count as cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hess, through Times spokesman Jordan Cohen, said it was \u201ccompletely false\u201d to suggest she was part of the uproar over McNeil.<\/p>\n<p>As the Free Beacon reported, the Guild did issue <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveyalba\/status\/1358804306074476547\">a statement<\/a> against McNeil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s never a moment when harmful racist rhetoric is acceptable,\u201d it said. \u201cWhile we continue to advocate for our members, we do so recognizing that we are one community that must work together to eradicate and fight injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement suggested the union wouldn\u2019t back McNeil if he were fired.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the drama surrounding the resignation of a New York Times veteran science reporter, employees inside the company have said the union designed to protect them is now more concerned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893472,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4091,6798,4126,4701,5558,3859],"class_list":["post-133443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-activists","tag-hijacked","tag-times","tag-union","tag-woke","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}