Plants haven't been engineered to allow labour to materially affect quality since then, unless you half-ass plant management.
Labour might, at best, have been able to move the assembly-quality needle in the 1960s. That's 100% management's fault, though cost-cutting and supplier-squeezing. Labour didn't design, spec or source the poor-quality cars that had been foisted on the public since the mid-1970s. Psarhjinian on Jun 05, No, they're really not. Look at the UAW and the mess they have created for the US auto industry and the it's rank and file. What appears to be a net positive now, could in fact become a negative. One piece of advice for them, they will reap what they sow. In the end it's the journalists' decision for what direction they head in. I do think some journalist should look at what a vehicle is and attempt to assess the vehicle for what it was designed to do and how it's marketed. No real or relevant information was really provided to the reader on how well the Ram Rebel actually performed off road. It was supposed to be an off road exercise.īut, it was just a hooning exercise on his part. I did post one comment which questioned Andrew Collins review of the Ram Rebel.
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I don't think Truck Yeah or Jalopnik are as free with opinions as TTAC. I don't think the human aspect of fiction will become robotic in the near future.Ĭould you imagine a robot writing a Jack Baruth short story? What is occurring is AI and computer generated journalism. The future is becoming bleakers for many jobs out there. How successful will it be to unionise journo's? Well, I do on the odd occasion contribute to Truck Yeah and Jalopnik. Time will tell if other companies follow in Gawker’s footsteps. Should all go as planned, Gawker Media would be the first online-only media company ever to have union representation. If not, ties are dissolved or a new contract would be brought to the table. If the contract is agreeable, which I think is what they expect, we’re unionized. Gawker writers have approved the WGA to negotiate a contract on their behalf with Gawker management. The next step? Jalopnik Editor-in-Chief Travis Okulski explains: He also looks forward to working with whomever the writers choose to represent them during the company’s strategic discussions.
Schrader adds she and other remote employees haven’t received replies to emails about what WGA does from the union itself – asking for any organization working to represent the employees be “as responsive as work on the web demands,” especially with those not in New York – and is concerned for the company’s contractors who are prohibited from joining the WGA by the National Labor Relations Board, leaving them vulnerable come negotiation time.Īnd Gawker Media owner and founder Nick Denton’s take on the vote? In response to a comment from former vice president of editorial and sometimes Jalopnik contributor Joel Johnson, Denton praised the transparency leading up to the vote, an aspect his company says could be applied even further than the “transparent to a fault” stance already present. Meanwhile, editor of subsidiary Black Flag Stef Schrader said she would likely vote against unionizing, based on Gawker’s unique situation as a company and WGA’s focus on more traditional forms of media. Orlove goes on to state he would like the contract to focus on safeguarding against the company when it makes moves to the detriment of those who, while valuable as far as writing talent goes, are the least equipped to sort out the messes left behind. The results came to 75 percent (80 votes) in favor, 25 percent (27 votes) opposed.Īs for how some of Jalopnik‘s staff voted, writer Raphael Orlove said he supported the move to unionize despite reservations regarding demands other Gawker Media writers have been making. Out of 118 eligible voters throughout the online-only media company, 107 cast their vote Wednesday to decide whether or not to be represented by the Writers Guild of America, East, Gawker reports. It’s official: Writers for Gawker Media’s online publications, including our friends at Jalopnik, have voted to unionize.
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