WSJ union staging afternoon walkout

IAPE 1096, the union that represents Wall Street Journal editorial staffers, sent out the following to its members:

You may have heard the rumors of another round of layoffs, this time in U.S. News. While we cannot confirm a definitive number of IAPE-represented cuts until the end of the day, we can confirm the rumors are becoming fact today.
We need to act because of the heartless way our colleagues around the company have been treated during months of drawn-out layoffs.
Join your colleagues today, May 30 for a lunch walkout at 1:00 p.m. EDT.
If you’re in NY, let’s meet on the sidewalk outside the building on 6th Ave. We’ll distribute decorated picket signs and march around the building. Bring your chanting voice!
If you are remote today, you can join the virtual walkout (see your email for a meeting link) at the same time and set your OOO to “Walking out in solidarity with colleagues laid off today”.
Afterwards, we’ll announce our next action, answer questions + spend the rest of the hour together in solidarity. See you all there!

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.