Jake Lahut, a Wired staffer fired last year during a union dispute over other fired staffers at Conde Nast, is pursuing an unfair labor practice case with the National Labor Relations Board, reports Katie Kilkenny.
Kilkenny reports, “For Lahut, the fight with Condé Nast isn’t 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. ‘I’m prepared to wait months, years if I have to. I mean, I think that’s potentially realistic,’ he says.
“In the meantime, he’s 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 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 Condé Nast had pulled him off the subsequent appearance.
“‘I really don’t understand how standing in a hallway and asking questions is enough to merit what’s happened here,’ he says.”
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