Disgruntled Washington Post Union Members Pepper Publisher’s Neighborhood With Grievance Posters

Angered members of The Washington Post’s tech union hung up posters around publisher and CEO Will Lewis’ neighborhood on Thursday in retaliation for the mass layoffs.

The Post laid off about a third of its workforce on Wednesday by eliminating several sections and scaling back the number of assigned reporters to foreign countries. A day later, Lewis was seen in San Francisco at a Super Bowl event after having cut the paper’s sports section, prompting Washington Post Tech Guild members to hang up signs saying Lewis was “wanted for destroying The Washington Post.”

The fliers include a photograph of Lewis in the center and a QR code used to send letters to management and demand that they stop the staff cuts.

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The tech guild called the layoffs “disheartening and infuriating,” and called to continue fighting for their members.

The Washington Post Guild, another union at the newspaper, condemned the layoffs in a statement on Wednesday, stating that the cuts will only “weaken” the paper, drive away readers and violate the paper’s mission, which is to “hold power to account.” They also suggested that Jeff Bezos, who owns the newspaper, may not be cut out to be in charge after he ordered the layoffs.