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Jurgen Schmieder, Los Angeles
How public can negotiations be, indeed must they be? That is the really exciting question in the dispute between the New York Times and the union NewsGuild; which, which is also exciting, has been going on since March 2021. There have already been a total of 40 rounds of negotiations without a result, which is why more than 1,100 union members went on strike for 24 hours on Thursday – the first measure of this magnitude since 1978, when employees at the printing plant went on strike for 88 days. In 1981 there was a strike lasting a few hours, in 2017 the employees briefly left the skyscraper on Eight Avenue in New York to protest cuts in the final editorial office.