More than 200 NBC and MSNBC employeees plan to walk off the job at NBC’s 30 Rock offices in New York on Thursday to protest the company’s decision to lay off seven journalists last month who are part of the New York’s NewsGuild, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
A post on the NewsGuild’s site read that the 24-hour work stoppage is to “protest the company’s unfair labor practices.”
“In January the company illegally laid off seven bargaining unit members and informed others that they were no longer members of the union. This of course violates federal law,” the statement continued.