Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC : Love the @NewYorker, but @ewarren and I don't cross picket lines

[BeckyDem]

Link to tweet

My kind of fighters. woohoo!

[zentrum]

1. Will never cross a picket line.

But what is this about?

[BeckyDem]

2. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren drop out of The New Yorker Festival in solidarity

with magazine's union

New York (CNN Business)Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren will no longer participate in The New Yorker Festival in an act of solidarity with the magazine's staff union.

The New Yorker union is holding a digital picket at 8 p.m. ET on October 5 — the day Ocasio-Cortez and Warren were originally scheduled to speak at the event — to call attention to its fight for a just cause proposal in its union contract. Just cause is a labor protection that requires an employer to build a case for why an employee should be fired.
"The NewsGuild and The New Yorker Union are fighting for basic dignity on the job and we stand with them," Ocasio-Cortez and Warren said in a joint statement shared with CNN Business. "We will not cross the picket line and attend the festival unless The New Yorker leadership agrees to the union's demands — they should do so immediately."
Former Attorney General Eric Holder tweeted later on Wednesday he is also pulling out of the festival, where he was scheduled to speak.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/media/aoc-warren-new-yorker-festival-union/index.html

[zentrum]

6. Much appreciated. Thanks. Makes me..

…sad though. I thought The New Yorker was more enlightened all through its ranks.

[uriel1972]

3. just cause is mot an unreasonable demand

it prevents a great deal of intimidation and abuse

[marble falls]

4. Never cross a picket line.

[DeminPennswoods]

5. Sadly, management can always think up a plausible

reason one should be fired and document it.