Didn't they retaliate against Wirecutter staff when they tried to go union, too?

Half a billion dollars for a startup by two techbros, but the Times can't afford the cost of their employees unionizing?

I guess I'm not in the least bit surprised then that every time I happen to click on an article from The Athletic out of boredom, it feels like something a freshman journalism major might write and then later be embarrassed about...and that every article I've read has been attributed to "The Athletic Staff."

Sidenote: it always amazes me that in the US, you supposedly need permission from a complicated, slow federal bureaucracy to be "recognized" and thus protected from retaliation for actions.