The controversy continues at Condé Nast

What a chaotic and controversial week at Condé Nast.

It started with the announcement that Teen Vogue would be folded into its sister magazine Vogue, with several Teen Vogue staffers being laid off, including its editor-in-chief.

Then news broke Thursday that four staffers at Condé Nast were abruptly fired after they, and several others, confronted the company’s head of human resources, demanding answers as to what was going on with Teen Vogue.

The four fired were leaders in the Condé United union. There was Alma Avalle, a writer and digital producer at Bon Appétit; Jake Lahut, a senior writer at Wired who covers the White House; Jasper Lo, a senior fact-checker at The New Yorker; and Ben Dewey, a videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment.

Semafor’s Max Tani wrote, “On Wednesday, more than a dozen employees gathered outside the office of Stan Duncan, Condé Nast’s head of human resources, demanding to speak with him about the Teen Vogue decision, and other recent cuts at the company. Duncan told staff that they could not be congregating outside his office, and asked them to return to work. When he tried to leave, one employee asked Duncan if he was running away from the unionized employees.”