Sesame Street non-profit to be hit with layoffs after staff unionize

 

Sesame Street non-profit to be hit with layoffs after staff announce union

CEO to ‘significantly downsize’ Sesame Workshop after more than 200 employees revealed plans to unionize

from the Guardian

Sesame Workshop, the non-profit behind Sesame Street, is cutting staff in an effort to “downsize significantly”, its president and CEO, Sherrie Rollins Westin, told employees this week.
The news of layoffs at the organization came just shortly after more than 200 employees at Sesame Workshop revealed their plans to unionize and comes several months after Warner Bros Discovery decided not to renew the distribution deal for new episodes of Sesame Street, the long-running, beloved children’s program.

In an email to staff on Wednesday, Rollins Westin told employees that Sesame Workshop was not “immune to the current economic challenges inherent to the drastically changing media landscape” and that the end of their distribution deal combined with policy changes affecting their federal funding made them “confronted with a perfect storm”.

“These factors, among others, have left us with a significant budget gap that we must solve as we head into the next fiscal year,” she added.
Rollins Westin said that the company’s largest single expense is people and benefits, and that the company therefore must “downsize significantly and make what we hope will be temporary changes to our benefits and bonus program”.....

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 Did I mention we need to defund PBS ?

New Muppet on Afghan "Sesame Street" to Teach 'Respecting Women'

The social justice warriors cry fascism all the while using the force of government to impose their will on the world.  The SJW.s infest; the halls of power in all levels of government, the faculty, quads and commons of campuses from coast to coast and control the narrative and most aspects of the legacy media. The masters of indoctrination target the children in all countries. excerpt from ABC News ...

New boy muppet in Afghanistan promotes gender equality

Last year, Afghanistan's version of "Sesame Street" introduced a little girl character aimed at inspiring girls in the deeply conservative Muslim nation. Now a new muppet is joining the cast: her brother, who will show boys the importance of respecting women.

Zeerak, whose name means "Smart" in Afghanistan's two official languages, is a 4-year-old boy who enjoys studying and learning. He joins 6-year-old sister Zari, whose name means "Shimmering," on Afghanistan's version of the show, "Baghch-e-SimSim," or "Sesame Garden."

Both muppets wear traditional Afghan clothing — the baggy trousers and long embroidered shirt known as a shalwar kameez for him and colorful native dresses and a cream-colored hijab, or headscarf, for her. They join the rest of "Sesame Street's" multi-cultural line-up, which includes muppets specially created for local versions of the program in Bangladesh, Egypt and India.

The last time a Muslim muppet tried talking about RESPECT he misspelled it .... 

Just a little bit ......