Right now, @dailykos has our harm-mitigation proposal for consideration, and we’re hopeful they agree that our commonsense, humane solutions are a more equitable way than layoffs to meet our shared goal.
Our proposal recommends cross-training and internal transfers for members potentially impacted by layoffs who would like to remain employed at @dailykos. This is one way to avoid unnecessary harm from #layoffs.
Our proposed options include reconsidering some employees who requested voluntary buyouts and were rejected; six members of DKG have once again offered their jobs to another member.
Our proposal offers more solutions than we need. We found a lot of ways to meet company’s cost-savings target—through voluntary, equitable plans that are sensitive to the future operations of @dailykos.
If @dailykos rejects our proposal and involuntary #layoffs are conducted Monday, the last of our members who organized this union group in 2020 will have been terminated. We don’t think that’s a good look for us.
If @dailykos rejects our proposal, the Daily Kos Equity Council—a body of 18 last year—will have only six members. This would put the Equity Council in violation of its own founding document, which says each department must have an EqC representative.
If @dailykos rejects our very reasonable proposal, it will show us that truly nothing we offered would have saved our jobs. A disheartening proposition, and one we hope we don’t have to face tomorrow with involuntary #layoffs.
We have worked around the clock for weeks to meet new and changing demands, respond to shifting deadlines, and strategize within hazy parameters. But we do it because at @dailykos, we’re a pro-labor organization. Always have been.
We want what’s best for @dailykos, and we have shown time and again that we are willing to sacrifice our time, our labor, and even our jobs to protect those among us who can’t be unemployed.
We’ve been accused of being selfish, but we don’t think giving up our own benefits, members, and weeks of work and energy is selfish. We care about @dailykos — that’s why we’re negotiating the least-harmful path to success.
We are hopeful that our measures are considered carefully by @dailykos, and that at least some of our many concessions will meet management’s approval so we can continue forward with those of us who most want to stay.
We hope to see a similar level of commitment from @dailykos management. We’ve offered as many solutions as we need, and more, under unnecessarily contentious demands. We’d love to see them match our efforts—and our thoughtfulness.
It’s been a long weekend, and a long week. Under absurd conditions, we’ve done the work these past few weeks that we should have been invited to do months ago, when @dailykos first thought it might need to conduct #layoffs.
At every step, we considered our most vulnerable members’ needs *and* the future of @dailykos. We do, after all, want to keep our jobs. That means Daily Kos has to exist. Maybe that’s selfish, but it’s the truth.
We did that work because it mattered to us that we minimize harm from #layoffs. We negotiated a better severance package. We convinced @dailykos to conduct voluntary buyouts. 16 of our members offered to forfeit their jobs to keep the lights on—
—and to make sure those among us with dependents, disabilities, tenuous financial circumstances, health care concerns, and those most vulnerable to uncertainty were protected. @dailykos turned half of us down.
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