If you’ve been on the internet the past two days, you probably know about Vox’s crusade against Steven Crowder. Carlos Maza, host of a silly show called “Strikethrough,” got his feelings hurt over a few jokes and decided it was his duty to try to banish Crowder from YouTube.

In what’s been a confusing back and forth, YouTube has settled on demonetizing Crowder’s channel until he deletes the link to a “socialism is for figs” t-shirt.

(Steven Crowder Live Streams Update on His Situation As Carlos Maza Keeps Freaking Out)

Today, Vox got a break from going after conservative content creators though, and it wasn’t exactly voluntary.

The Vox Media Union has walked out today. Here’s what it looks like in the New York office. pic.twitter.com/erPp4fW1nw — Vox Media Union (@vox_union) June 6, 2019

Breaking: Over 300 Vox Media employees are mounting a one-day walkout today to pressure the company to finish bargaining a contract with them, a union spokesperson tells me. They are not writing or editing stories. (Story on @TheTerminal – should be on web soon.) https://t.co/2c90dYxugd — Josh Eidelson (@josheidelson) June 6, 2019

Writers from the site are even telling people not to click on Vox links.

I did not schedule this tweet of my article. Please do not click links from the tweets management is forcing folks out of unit to do while we walk out https://t.co/NhkyeJLLAB — Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) June 6, 2019

Other employees at Vox took to Twitter to share their stories of not being paid a living wage (by D.C. and NY standards).

.@Bankoff: I love working at Vox. But when I started, I made just $30,000 a year in DC (a pretty expensive city). I don’t want anyone at Vox Media to go through that again. It’s time the company agree to a fair contract with @vox_union. — German Lopez (@germanrlopez) June 5, 2019

.@Bankoff I took a big pay cut to come to Vox on the promise that my $40K salary would be raised once I was more trained in journalism. Instead I worked as hard as anyone (mostly autodidactically) to help build a website for a year and a half on $40-44K. https://t.co/vE5ItCVNzY — Dara Lind (@DLind) June 5, 2019

Inject this directly into my veins.

Not only is it hilarious to see Vox taking punches internally after they spent the past two days desperately trying to get Steven Crowder banned from YouTube, but it also exposes an incredible hypocritical that exists at the NBC backed outlet.

Vox is as liberal as it gets. They constantly push the idea of a “living wage” and support Democrat politicians who stump for such policies. They are also an outfit that’s had no problem targeting other companies in the past for supposedly not paying enough.

Yet, here they are paying people $30K a year to work in one of the most expensive cities in the country. It’s your typical “do as I say, not as I do” situation that permeates throughout left-wing politics.

Comcast pumped at least $600M into Vox. One of its founders, Matthew Yglesias, lives in a 7-figure condo. A search of the site for "living wage" returns 8,268 results. https://t.co/8oZfvELA4S — Dodd (@Amuk3) June 5, 2019

I for one support the full unionization of Vox and all left-wing media outlets. Let them actually have to live under the system they promote and we’ll see how far they get.

In the meantime, Steven Crowder has to be laughing his head off at this turn of events.

UPDATE:

Vox has responded to the walkout.

Latest: Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's "disappointed" by @vox_union walkout and, “While paying people a lot more than market wages sounds great on the surface, it’s not realistic or smart.” https://t.co/bPf0ZubEKt Says he wants "fair & highly competitive agreement quickly" https://t.co/CHLw462cxc — Josh Eidelson (@josheidelson) June 6, 2019

LOL….

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA It is amazing how these ppl who push a socialist agenda never ever live by what they preach https://t.co/t5ETZ1rfZa — Bob Malak (@bob_malak) June 6, 2019

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