New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Thursday tweeted his support for BuzzFeed News's union, one day after the organization said executives at the company didn't show up to a scheduled meeting.

De Blasio in the tweet told BuzzFeed News management that it "insulted all working New Yorkers" and told the union that "this city stands with you."

Memo to @BuzzFeedNews: New York City is a union town. You didn't just snub @bfnewsunion yesterday, you insulted all working New Yorkers.



To the union: This city stands with you.

To the management: Come. To. The. Table. — Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) April 4, 2019

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The newsroom's union, which was formed with the NewsGuild of New York, says it is asking for a contract guaranteeing due process for termination, reasonable severance policies during layoffs, a competitive 401(k), affordable insurance and employee rights to creative works. The union has also asked management at the company to give the same treatment to contractors on the staff.

"We demand that BuzzFeed News recognizes our union immediately so that we can swiftly reach a mutually satisfying contract that lets us focus on the important work of reporting on Cardi B memes and breaking the biggest stories in the country," the union's website reads.

The union said Wednesday in a tweet that, five minutes before a scheduled meeting, executives "told us they weren’t going to show up."

We came to the table today ready to meet with BuzzFeed execs about finally recognizing our union. Five minutes after the meeting was scheduled to start, they told us they weren’t going to show up. pic.twitter.com/Pa9aBsOeaM — BuzzFeed News Union (@bfnewsunion) April 3, 2019

A spokesperson for BuzzFeed reportedly hit back at the mayor on Thursday.

"This process is not going to benefit from the involvement of a deeply unpopular mayor who has expressed an open disdain for journalists during his time in office," the spokesperson said, according to The Daily Beast.

BuzzFeed News staff voted to unionize earlier this year following layoffs at the company. The news organization laid off about 15 percent of its workforce in January.

BuzzFeed HR senior director Tanya Carroll said Wednesday in an email to the newsroom viewed by The Hill that management had asked to postpone Wednesday's meeting because, prior to its start, the union changed "the terms of discussion." The union asked to negotiate "a broad, abstract bargaining unit," while BuzzFeed expected to instead discuss which individual positions would be included in a contract agreement, Carroll said.

"Last Friday, we even received an email from the Union about specific individuals, some of whom we addressed in an email yesterday, while conveying our intent to address the remaining individuals at today’s meeting," she wrote.

"However, this morning before today's meeting, the Union sent us an email insisting that we drop our discussion of individual positions and move to negotiating a broad, abstract bargaining unit--changing the terms of discussion," the email continued.

A BuzzFeed News spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill that BuzzFeed "has made specific, reasonable offers (and concessions) with the goal of voluntarily recognizing a BuzzFeed News union."

"We hope the union will return to discussing specific titles and positions — the subject of weeks of negotiations — rather than focusing on an area where we continue to disagree," the spokesperson added.

—Updated at 3:39 p.m.