Insider Editor Nich ‘Big Boy’ Carlson Tore Down Union Flyers, Stuffed Them Into His Bike Basket
In a truly mortifying video, Carlson was caught ripping pro-union posters down while bicycling around Brooklyn.
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It’s hard for corporate overlords when employees demand humane, certainly-achievable working conditions. Some choose to respond with wildly out of touch ranting; others simply seek to replace people they purport to care about. Still others find themselves so in the throes of distress that they have no choice but to make an absolute asshat of themselves on camera. Healing isn’t linear, etc. etc.!
Unfortunately, for Nicholas Carlson, the global editor-in-chief of Insider, he chose the latter. Now the image of him with a Citi Bike basket full of ripped up pro-union fliers has been forever immortalized.
On Tuesday, the New York Post published a video of Carlson being confronted by a handful of members of the Insider Union after they witnessed him tearing down their posters while bicycling around Brooklyn last week. (Insider’s 250-person union has been on strike since June 2, though Semafor’s Maxwell Tani reported Wednesday afternoon that they appear to be close to a deal.)
One of the fliers—probably the one that prompted Carlson to hop on a Citi Bike and rip the signage from lamp posts in the first place—asked: “Have you seen this millionaire?” alongside his photo and details about the union and its ongoing negotiations, which include filing unfair labor practice complaints against the company over its move to drastically increase employees’ healthcare premiums in recent months.