> "It remains clear to me that the role of Managing Editor is not empowered with supervisory authority or meaningful institutional leadership," she wrote. "Repeated attempts to have the role clarified and to be included in meaningful management and leadership decisions have been met with inaction. Therefore, I am once again clarifying my intention to resign from the position of Managing Editor effective February 1."

You’re a managing editor, not a CEO. You get to direct what sort of stories get covered and how. There’s no doubt another manager that manages production staff and so on that doesn’t get to manage what you manage either.

Unions are generally a good thing. But media employees have such an inflated sense of how much control they have or should have of a company.

What happens next is they throw their employer under the bus, wildly overplay their hand, or both. And they lose because unless their content is a massive hit there is always someone else willing to do a prestigious and cushy job without being a total pain in the ass.