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Just Cause is the foundation of union contracts. It’s a critical mechanism of due process for media workers, especially for our BIPOC colleagues, to ensure the editorial integrity of our industry. Now employers are attempting to undermine this essential job protection. (1/6) 
What is "just cause"? It establishes a clear standard for termination, meaning workers can't be fired simply because the boss doesn't like their politics, their opinions, or the look on their faces. It's protected journalists at outlets like the New York Times for decades. (2/6)
During the past year we’ve witnessed different media companies, utilizing the same anti-union law firms, push an "editorial exception" to just cause in which management has sole discretion to target workers under the guise of subjective editorial judgment. (3/6)
If journalists don’t have just cause, you won’t get the full story. #JustCauseNoExceptions
If you work for a media outlet that talks a big game about diversity, hold them to it. Demand just cause.
As a labor writer I'd also add that just cause is a standard feature in union contracts. That's been the case in our industry; it's the case in other industries, too. Media employers that say otherwise at the bargaining table are lying to you.
Today @newyorkerunion is undertaking a half-day work stoppage. We demand a contract that reflects the value of our labor and the principles in our pages, and the foundation of that contract is #JustCauseNoExceptions.
Just cause is an essential labor protection and among the core reasons we organized our union. Today, we are withholding our labor to protest management’s resistance to our proposal. #JustCauseNoExceptions
It's critical, especially in this moment of reckoning, that employees have a voice in the workplace—particularly one with a record of unfairness (@condenast), governed by opaque rules (@newyorker), and helmed by mostly white leaders (@condenast/@newyorker). #JustCauseNoExceptions
