Referring to a memorandum recently circulated in the offices of The New York Times, the National Writers' Union has charged that the newspaper is discriminating against eleven of its freelance members for suing the company. The freelancers had successfully sued the newspaper over compensation rights related to the posting on electronic databases of articles they had written. The memorandum, sent to Times editors by the newspaper's Director of Editorial Rights, directed them not to hire any of the writers who had sued the company.
See "Times Created a Blacklist, Writers Assert", FELICITY BARRINGER, The New York Times, September 24, 2001