Overview
- Letitia James joined a NewsGuild rally outside Condé Nast’s New York headquarters, demanded the rehiring of four terminated staffers, and declared, “I’ll see you in court.”
- A press aide later said there was no litigation in the works, though James said the state was looking at legal options.
- The four fired employees — Jasper Lo, Jake Lahut, Alma Avalle, and Ben Dewey — and five suspended colleagues had confronted HR chief Stan Duncan about Teen Vogue’s fold into Vogue and related layoffs.
- Condé Nast says the terminations were lawful, citing harassment and policy violations, and it has filed an unfair-labor-practice charge with the NLRB.
- The union filed grievances and its own NLRB complaint and is seeking internal emails and unreleased company video after TheWrap posted footage the company says omits several minutes.