Whitney Kimball

Freelance writer. Formerly Gizmodo, Jezebel, Art F City. whitkimball @ gmail

[Caitlin Cruz @caitlinrcruz]

Today is the LAST 24 hours of @gmgunion @WGAEast contract. We’re fighting for parental leave, healthcare and compensation during unprecedented inflation!!! We’d love your support https://t.co/srbUn7UUH9

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

✊G/O mgmt has done everything it can pulverize this unit’s soul. GMG union won’t cave. I mean look at this. This portrait of solidarity.

[GMG Union @gmgunion]

Oh BTW-- GMG Union's strike authorization vote ended with 100% in favor, at 93% turnout.

[Bianca @BiancaTylek]

You really want to understand how many corporations are profiting off mass incarceration? Starting tomorrow, I'm going to expose a new corporation or executive engaged in the prison industry daily. And I won't be going into the vault, recent sources only.

Follow now.

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

Hope no one tells TN about Alison Bechdel :(

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

An NFT insurance company that only covers "blockchain flood damage"

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

@hragv ha, yeah, just a very weird top of the fold item!

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

what

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

Wirecutter union says they offered to meet nights and weekends.

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

Another reason to boycott Wirecutter this weekend: a spox says that mgmt rejected the union’s proposed pre-Black Friday bargaining dates so that Wirecutter could *work more.* In their words, “provide...the ability to focus on serving our readers during Cyber Week.”

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

@BondJohnBond Somehow it’s just “never in the budget”

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

Can’t stop thinking about this line, from the Wirecutter union, on bargaining: “We have been told at the table, at least once, ‘you don’t do New York Times work.’” Has management not checked out the op-ed section? https://t.co/ZSyTcG4H94

[Chris Fasulo @fasulo_chris]

@whitneykimball This is exactly the reason why spectrum proposed the deletion of the contracting clause before #SpectrumStrike it allows the company to pay cheaper wages no benefits and releases them of almost all liability. #organizespectrum all over the country

[Chris Fasulo @fasulo_chris]

@ZephyrTeachout how many in-house and contractors have been cheated out of wages in NYS. This was happening before #SpectrumStrike how many techs were terminated, suspended or held back from progressing bc of missed metrics @StrikeSpectrum @FlyingWithSara @RickSmithShow

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

@Bonniezilla @dellcam Absolutely- please DM me, I would love to talk

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

In 10 months of reporting this, countless cable technicians told me about losing their homes, breaking their bodies, and literally starving because the industry has trapped them in an inescapable cycle of debt and overwork. https://t.co/IcWH6ixDzD

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

@dellcam @Bonniezilla That’s horrifying. I’m so sorry you both had to go through that- sounds completely dehumanizing

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

@jodyserrano Jody!! Thank you for reading it! ❤️

[Whitney Kimball @whitneykimball]

I still think about this piece weekly, especially this line: “there’s nothing in the middle of the brain except liquid.”
https://t.co/fUFZjy0Rxf