Anne Hathaway walked out of a Vanity Fair photoshoot on Tuesday morning as she showed support for the Condé Nast Union walk out.
The Oscar-winning actress, 41, was ‘in hair and make-up’ when her team ‘was notified by a staffer from SAG-AFTRA to advise Hathaway to support the work stoppage,’ according to Variety.
Hathaway was said to be unaware of the work stoppage when she originally arrived at the New York City shoot.
A source told the publication: ‘They hadn’t even started taking photos yet. Once Anne was made aware of what was going on, she just got up from hair and makeup and left.’
DailyMail.com has contacted Hathaway’s representatives for comment.
Anne Hathaway walked out of a Vanity Fair photoshoot on Tuesday morning as she showed support for the Condé Nast Union walk out (pictured 2021)
Hundreds of unionized staffers at Condé Nast, the parent company behind legacy publications including Vogue and Vanity Fair, walked out Tuesday in protest of looming layoffs.
As part of the NewsGuild action, 400 employees walked off the job on the news-heavy day, which saw the announcement of Academy Award nominations and voting in a presidential primary.
The union urged people not to cross the digital picket line by refraining from visiting Conde Nast sites, which also include GQ, Bon Appetit, Glamour, Architectural Digest and Teen Vogue.
Protestors chanted: ‘Bosses wear Prada, workers get nada!’
The union action comes after the company’s CEO Roger Lynch said last fall it would lay off five percent of the total staff – about 300 employees.
Facing protest by the union, Conde Nast later said it would instead lay off 94 members of the guild, about 20 percent of total unionized staff. Negotiations are ongoing.
The NewsGuild’s New York chapter has filed a complaint with the federal labor board against Conde Nast.
Variety reports the Oscar-winning actress, 41, was ‘still in hair and make-up’ when her team was ‘was notified by a staffer from SAG-AFTRA to advise Hathaway to support the work stoppage’ (pictured 2023)
Unionized employees at Conde Nast, which includes brands like Vogue and Vanity Fair, walked off the job on Tuesday in protest of looming layoffs
Magazine publisher Condé Nast is laying off nearly 100 employees in the US due to a sharp decline in ad revenue spurred by the coronavirus pandemic
‘The last nearly three months of fighting for our co-workers on the company’s layoff list has led us to today,’ said Ben Dewey, an employee and representative of the Conde Nast Union.
Conde Nast laid off upwards of half of the Pitchfork staff on Wednesday, including editor-in-chief Puja Patel and features editor Jill Mapes.
Condé Nast, who bought Pitchfork in 2015, is merging the publication into GQ.
Anna Wintour was reportedly sporting her signature shades as she laid off nearly half of the staff working at Pitchfork.
The 74-year-old Vogue editor-in-chief was slammed online by her now former employees, who called the move indecent and appalling.
‘One absolutely bizarro detail from this week is that Anna Wintour — seated indoors at a conference table — did not remove her sunglasses while she was telling us that we were about to get canned,’ Allison Hussey, a former Pitchfork staff writer, wrote on X.
‘The indecency we’ve seen from upper management this week is appalling.’
The tweet, posted Friday morning, has already reached nearly 300K views online and hundreds of retweets.
The company announced the move in a memo to employees,
Anna Wintour was reportedly sporting her signature shades as she laid off nearly half of the staff working at Pitchfork
The decision ‘was made after a careful evaluation of Pitchfork’s performance and what we believe is the best path forward for the brand so that our coverage of music can continue to thrive within the company,’ Wintour, Condé Nast’s chief content officer and global editorial director of Vogue, wrote in a memo to staff.
Mapes, a feature editor who was laid off, stated on Twitter: ‘I’ve referred to my job at pitchfork as being on a ferris wheel at closing time, just waiting for them to yank me down.
‘After nearly 8 years, mass layoffs got me. glad we could spend that time trying to make it a less dude-ish place just for GQ to end up at the helm,’ Mapes added.
In 2020, Magazine publisher Condé Nast, which owns Vogue, GQ and The New Yorker, was under fire when it laid off nearly 100 employees in the US due to a sharp decline in ad revenue spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.
The cuts were announced in an internal memo that also said under 100 other staffers would be temporarily furloughed and ‘a handful’ of the company’s approximate 2,700 staffers would have reduced work schedules.
‘Not all teams will be impacted equally by these actions. That doesn’t mean some teams are more valuable to us than others,’ Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch said at the time. ‘We tried to identify specific areas where we could bring down our costs without limiting our growth priorities.’
Also that year, Condé Nast announced in a separate memo that employees earning more than $100,000 would receive 10 to 20 percent pay cuts.
‘These decisions are never easy, and not something I ever take lightly. I want to be transparent about the principles and approach we used,’ Lynch added.
Dailymail.com has contacted Conde Nast but did not receive a response.