Sen. Elizabeth Warren might have just hampered the likelihood of Hearst management approving her as one of their magazine cover stars in the run-up to the 2020 election, but she certainly won the hearts and minds of hundreds of its staffers.
The Massachusetts senator just entered another contentious race, intervening in the messy battle between Hearst Magazines execs and a huge chunk of their employees over the latter’s efforts to form a union.
“It should be quick and easy to join a union, and I stand with the @HearstUnion as they fight for a fair vote to form one,” she tweeted Wednesday night.
Her tweet, which was shared hundreds of times and received more than 2,000 likes, was referring to the fact that Hearst has not voluntarily recognized the union and is in fact taking a number of steps to thwart unionization.
This has included setting up an antiunion web site, as well as widespread reports that it may have created union-busting social media accounts, which have since been deleted. There have also been multiple claims of management urging staffers to withdraw their union cards.
Hearst execs’ latest move has been trying to persuade the National Labor Relations Board, a federal body that decides when

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