Overview
- Condé United filed an unfair labor practice charge and multiple grievances seeking reinstatement after four unionized staffers were fired.
- TheWrap’s video of the exchange shows employees pressing HR chief Stan Duncan for answers as he directs them to return to work, with no apparent threats in the clips.
- Condé Nast maintains the terminations followed “extreme misconduct,” says the shared footage omits parts of the incident, and previously filed its own NLRB complaint against the NewsGuild of New York.
- Those fired were Alma Avalle of Bon Appétit, Jake Lahut of WIRED, Jasper Lo of The New Yorker, and Ben Dewey of Condé Nast Entertainment, with the union also reporting three-day suspensions for five others.
- The dispute followed Condé Nast’s move to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue.com that led to the exit of editor in chief Versha Sharma and layoffs of several staffers, with investigations and any arbitration likely to take time.