The Daily Kos Guild (DKG) is heartened to have received a response from Markos, our founder, and, thus far, an absent party in our negotiations with Daily Kos Management (DKM). You can read his statement here. Simultaneously, Daily Kos Staff received an update via email and Slack from Will Rockafellow, Daily Kos president and another empty chair during all Guild negotiations.
We’d prefer to have these discussions at the table. We hope Markos and Will take us up on our standing invitation. About thirty of us are present at each of these negotiations—half of our DKG employees. We still want to have this conversation in person so we could more effectively help solve our financial problems.
The DKG also wants to extend our thanks to the Community for your ongoing support. We all love Daily Kos, and want to keep it thriving. Our Community support has been essential in getting us more information.
Markos' post was illuminating and helpful. And for the Staff who have struggled for the past two weeks, worried they’re about to be laid off, this was the very first time we had heard from him about this.
We’ve seen the $3M+ loss in documents provided to DKG. We see Markos repeating that this inevitable situation is simply a matter of business, and there are no other options. We agree that there is a money problem that needs to be rectified. What we disagree about—and are attempting to negotiate—is the solution. So let’s get into the details.
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