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\n\tIt was a march on the boss, a typical union tactic used to pressure management, this time with unusual consequences. <\/p>\n

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\n\tOn Nov. 5, 2025, a group of NewsGuild of New York union members confronted the chief people officer of publishing giant Cond\u00e9 Nast outside his offices in One World Trade Center about recent layoffs and changes to Teen Vogue<\/em>. A tense exchange ensued, with the executive trying to leave the conversation as union members pressed him to engage \u2014 at least some of it captured on video and later leaked to the media.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe next day, four union members \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit<\/em>\u2019s Alma Avalle, Cond\u00e9 Nast Entertainment\u2019s Ben Dewey, Wired<\/em>\u2019s Jake Lahut and The New Yorker<\/em>\u2019s Jasper Lo \u2014 were fired and five more union members were suspended for conduct that \u201cviolated company policies\u201d and \u201cbehavior that crosses the line into targeted harassment and disruption of business operations\u201d according to the company. The union, in turn, deemed the firings illegal and began advocating on behalf of the terminated staffers, calling them \u201cthe Fired Four.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, nearly half a year later, the union has reached a settlement with Cond\u00e9 Nast over the discipline, The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> has learned. As part of the deal, the status of three of the four workers was changed from fired to being allowed to resign as active employees. They were each given nearly two years\u2019 pay and furnished with positive letters of recommendation.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe fourth fired worker, Lahut, was a probationary worker at the time of the exchange \u2014 meaning that he was a recent hire who had not been working at Wired <\/em>long enough to be covered by the union agreement\u2019s \u201cJust Cause\u201d language. He was offered a \u201clesser\u201d settlement of his own, per the union, but chose to pursue the case through an unfair labor practice charge case at the National Labor Relations Board.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the suspended workers, the settlement deal provides them with backpay for the days they were suspended and their disciplinary records have been erased. <\/p>\n

\n\tThough the company did not admit fault as part of the deal (and neither did the union), the NewsGuild of New York framed the settlement as a victory. \u201c[Cond\u00e9 Nast] wanted to send a message that if you potentially step out of line according to some random boss\u2019s assessment of what that means, that you could be fired,\u201d NewsGuild of New York president Susan DeCarava said in an interview. \u201cThis outcome is a clear repudiation of that. It\u2019s a repudiation of the idea that people\u2019s right to take direct collective action isn\u2019t protected under federal law. It clearly is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement, a Cond\u00e9 Nast spokesperson said that after an arbitration process began, \u201cwe reached a mutual, amicable agreement so that all parties can move forward constructively. In doing so, neither party admits to any wrongdoing or liability.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tLo, a former fact-checker at The New Yorker <\/em>who was one of the fired union members, called his feelings about the settlement \u201ccomplicated.\u201d He explained, \u201cThe company did something so egregious, but you can see from the terms of the settlement that they are admitting in so many ways that they\u2019re shouldering the blame. They\u2019re shouldering the blame as much as they\u2019re willing to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPost-Cond\u00e9 Nast, Lo is planning on attending the Middlebury Language Schools this summer to work on his Mandarin while freelancing.<\/p>\n

\n\tAvalle, meanwhile, called the settlement a \u201ca win for the entirety of the Cond\u00e9 Nast Union, New Yorker Union, the NewsGuild and labor moment to say workers have a right to talk to their bosses as equals.\u201d Avalle is currently running an independent literary magazine with a friend, applying for staff jobs here and there and planning on staying involved with the union.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Lahut, the fight with Cond\u00e9 Nast isn\u2019t over. He says he was one week shy of his probationary status ending when he was fired. And National Labor Relations Board cases can take a long time to be decided, especially in 2026. \u201cI\u2019m prepared to wait months, years if I have to. I mean, I think that\u2019s potentially realistic,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the meantime, he\u2019s continuing to report freelance stories and has a contract job working as a breaking news editor at Sherwood News. But he keeps thinking about the day his job was terminated: That morning, he represented Wired<\/em> in a press appearance on MSNBC and was scheduled to do another later that night. He first got an inkling that something might be wrong through an MSNBC staffer, who he says told him Cond\u00e9 Nast had pulled him off the subsequent appearance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI really don\u2019t understand how standing in a hallway and asking questions is enough to merit what\u2019s happened here,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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