Huffington Post Bloggers Want Collective Bargaining Rights. Told To Fuck Off
http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/04/hu...ve-bargaining/
Bill Lasarow, Publisher and Co-Editor of Visual Art Source, announced that his organization is ?now going on strike. For now, at least, no more content from us will appear on the Huffington Post.?
Visual Art Source members have contributed content to the Huffington Post for free since 2010. Lasarow wrote that ?it is unethical to expect trained and qualified professionals to contribute quality content for nothing.?
Visual Art Source members have contributed content to the Huffington Post for free since 2010. Lasarow wrote that ?it is unethical to expect trained and qualified professionals to contribute quality content for nothing.?
The group hopes that Huffington will ?do the right thing? and agree to their requests. However, Lasarow wrote that he would be unsurprised if ?like the corporate titans of the American Right? Ms Huffington, whom I am certain has a good heart and only the best intentions, were to assume the obvious position: Who needs these people anyway??
Robert Scheer wrote in The Nation on February 23 a defense of Huffington?s system of not paying contributors. ?In defense of the use of unpaid bloggers, of which I happen to be one among the many who appear on a regular basis on the Huffington Post, we are not exploited,? wrote Scheer.
The contributors on strike claim that well-known contributors ?who will never need to be concerned about pay scales? should be ashamed of themselves for abetting the current situation.
Scheer claimed that ?for most contributors, the op-ed page was never a serious source of income.?
Huffington dismissed the strike Thursday at a conference hosted by PaidContent in New York City. ?Go ahead, go on strike,? Huffington said, ridiculing ?the idea of going on strike when no one really notices.?
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/04/hu...#ixzz1FkIjpqAN
Robert Scheer wrote in The Nation on February 23 a defense of Huffington?s system of not paying contributors. ?In defense of the use of unpaid bloggers, of which I happen to be one among the many who appear on a regular basis on the Huffington Post, we are not exploited,? wrote Scheer.
The contributors on strike claim that well-known contributors ?who will never need to be concerned about pay scales? should be ashamed of themselves for abetting the current situation.
Scheer claimed that ?for most contributors, the op-ed page was never a serious source of income.?
Huffington dismissed the strike Thursday at a conference hosted by PaidContent in New York City. ?Go ahead, go on strike,? Huffington said, ridiculing ?the idea of going on strike when no one really notices.?
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/04/hu...#ixzz1FkIjpqAN
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