Felicia Sonmez Takes Her WaPo Fight to the Feds
Fired Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez dramatically escalated her battle with her former employer this month, filing an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.
The complaint alleges that the Post fired Sonmez for engaging in protected speech when she launched her Twitter campaign against the paper over its social-media policies. The very public debacle last summer—which included the suspension of one of the paper’s top political reporters, multiple reprimands from executive editor Sally Buzbee, and an eventual revamp of the policy—led to Sonmez’s firing on June 9.
The NLRB complaint, which The Daily Beast obtained and reviewed, was filed by the Washington/Baltimore News Guild on Sept. 22 but docketed on Sept. 28.
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