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Why I Chose a Union Voice at Thrillist
… Shortly after news broke that Thrillist had secured a $100 million investment as part of a deal to merge with three other digital properties and create a new media behemoth, a few of us on the editorial staff began … toward unclear goals; receiving few or no benefits; adapting to an employer’s business “pivots,” which often rendered past work irrelevant; having little job security and no safety net; and working in offices with little diversity and less … jobs are unpaid, or pay so poorly and offer so few benefits that working in the industry effectively becomes the right of the privileged, can we expect to read fair, balanced stories that reflect the diverse nature of our society? When …