Jonah Peretti,the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, is a big fan of labor unions—as long as they approach nowhere near BuzzFeed. According to BuzzFeed reporter Cora Lewis, or Peretti told employees this week that I don’t deem a union is right for BuzzFeed,” citing the fact that BuzzFeed is structured more like a tech startup than a traditional media company and his own belief that unionization would negatively affect the salaries of BuzzFeed’s writers and reporters (in whom the company has invested tens of millions of dollars).
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Source: gawker.com