The Brooding Brahmin

ALT In solidarity with our newsroom and business-side colleagues, we as non-editorial New York Times employees will virtually walk out Friday, June 5, 2020. We thank our colleagues working on Publishing tools whose sick-out action on Thursday inspired our action for Friday. We affirm the concerns our editorial colleagues in Newsroom and Opinion have already shared: that publishing the Op-Ed piece by Tom Cotton endangered our staff—especially those on the ground reporting and our Black colleagues broadly—as well as people participating in protests. As non-editorial employees of the company, we are typically circumspect about expressing dissatisfaction with decision-making that affects our published content, but we feel that this particular circumstance warrants our action. We are saddened that the organization and tools we have endeavored to build and grow were used to publish this piece.