You can imagine that the Black Friday through Cyber Monday stretch is a particularly lucrative time for a site with this sort of business model, and one in which having 65 people not working could cause some real harm to the bottom line.Įxactly how much harm can be caused, and thus how much leverage can be gained, by the striking workers remains to be seen. 7 and purchase it from Amazon, Wirecutter gets a cut of that sale. What this means is that if you read an article on Wirecutter listing the 21 Best Toasters For Divorced Dads, and then click the link on Toaster No. Wirecutter, like many sites that have an e-commerce business, earns revenue through affiliate links. The timing of the strike was well-considered. The Times responded by refusing to even sit down for a negotiation before Black Friday, and so now all members of the Wirecutter union are on strike through Monday. Fed up with how the Times has continued to slow-play the already glacial negotiations, the Wirecutter bargaining unit recently delivered an ultimatum to management: Either get a deal done with us by Black Friday, or we will walk out.
This is because the site’s bargaining unit, about 65 editorial employees, have been trying and failing to negotiate their first collective bargaining agreement with Times management for nearly two years. In case you haven’t heard, a large chunk of Wirecutter staffers are currently on strike. Today is Black Friday, which means that you may very well be sitting in your home thinking, “Oh, crud, I need to buy some Christmas gifts!” Perhaps you have previously gone about solving this problem by going to Wirecutter, a section of The New York Times that provides readers with product reviews and recommendations, and purchased a bunch of items that the site gathered into various lists of Black Friday deals.
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