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The writers for these sites could easily create a coop structure and set up new sites that would duplicate the type of content that the old ones had. Of course, then they'd essentially be running the business themselves, and would end up learning the lessons about running a business that their former employer had already learned.
This is very disturbing - all the more so since the guy is a billionaire. I always liked Gothamist, although these days I rarely remembered to check them.
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I don't blame the owner. Unions are a cancer to their host organism.
Unions may not be ideal, and I'm no fan, but, rather than being a "cancer," they seem one of the few paths to rein in corporate heartlessness.
absolutely, if I ran a shop that unionized I would also fire everyone and move on
He was able to do this because ultimately these two business were small and inconsequential. AT&T can't fire all of their employees and shut down neither can any big institution, public or private.
Unions didn't kill these publications. The dwindling numbers of authentic New Yorkers did. It's the same thing that caused the death of The Village Voice and NY Press. Trust me, if there were still enough New Yorkers around to read Gothamist, DNAInfo et. al, these sites would've still been doing well enough to justify the hassle of keeping them going in spite of the threat of unionization.
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