Nearly half a year into a strike, the Gazette’s staff are upping the ante by trying to get their conservative owner booted from the C-SPAN board.
The CWA, which is the parent union of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and represents tens of thousands of workers nationwide, sent C-SPAN its letter in December amid the stalled union talks. The letter was signed by 20 of CWA’s leaders, including NewsGuild president Jon Schleuss.
C-SPAN President Patrick Esser dismissed the union’s letter in late December, noting that Block has been a member of the network’s board since 1991 and the 17-member board has “helped preserve” the channel’s objectivity by “codifying in its bylaws” provisions that prevent directors from influencing editorial content.
“Allan Block’s place on the C-SPAN board of directors combined with his editorial meddling in coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection, his brother’s grip-and-grin glam shots with the likes of Donald Trump and Mehmet Oz, and his refusal to comply with a judge’s order over his continued violation of American labor laws deeply compromises any pretense of “nonpartisanship” at C-SPAN,” the petition reads.
Some of the guild members participating in the campaign told The Daily Beast that they “believe in what it’s all about” and what the union is “trying to accomplish with that,” especially as Block is “damaging political journalism” and “spending millions of dollars” to fight his striking workers over basic worker entitlements., the Daily Beast’s media newsletter, and get juicy scoops in your inbox every week.
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