Vox employees stage walkout

By Noah Garfinkel

Published June 6, 2019 9:03pm ET

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Vox employees stage walkout — In this 2015 photo, Vox's website is displayed on an iPad held by an Associated Press staffer in Los Angeles. Vox Union, a group affiliated with the Writers Guild of America East, has accused Vox Media, the parent company of the popular liberal news site Vox, of "union busting" for refusing to accept their claim to have the backing of a majority of its workers to form a union. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) | Richard Vogel

More than 300 employees for Vox Media staged an official walkout Thursday, hoping to shut down the site and pressure Vox Media to sign a labor contract with the Vox Media Union.

In a Thursday morning tweet, the Vox Media Union wrote that they were “not showing up to work today” because they were unable to agree on wage scales, guaranteed wages, better severance packages, and more subcontracting work. Pictures followed of empty desks in the New York Vox Media Office.

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