Condé Nast is being accused of engaging in “extreme” union busting and illegal conduct after the media giant fired four union leaders and suspended five others last week, shortly after they confronted management about recent mass layoffs at Teen Vogue. Last Wednesday, a group of over a dozen editorial staff confronted the company’s head of HR seeking answers about two rounds of mass layoffs…
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From the NPR article linked into OP’s article
According to a statement posted on X from Condé United, a bargaining unit of the union the NewsGuild of New York, six of its members who worked for Teen Vogue are being laid off.
The union statement said that most of the six "are BIPOC women or trans, including Teen Vogue’s politics editor, . . . Teen Vogue now has no writers or editors explicitly covering politics." The statement also says that after the layoffs, there is only one woman of color on the editorial staff.
Feels clear what’s happening here