Posted on 12/22/2023 7:15:32 PM PST by Salman
The Washington Post Guild, the union that represents roughly 1,000 of the newspaper’s staffers, reached a tentative agreement Friday on a new contract with the Post’s management, a breakthrough after a year and a half of protracted and, at times, contentious talks that spilled into public view.
“This is without question the best contract the Post Guild has won in half a century,” the union’s bargaining committee wrote in an email to members obtained by CNN. “Though it does not include everything we hoped to achieve, the bargaining committee supports ratifying this agreement, and we believe it will position our union to continue making The Post a better workplace in the next three years and beyond.”
The tentative agreement comes after 18 months of negotiations that prompted hundreds of the newspaper’s staffers to walk off the job in a historic 24-hour strike earlier this month to protest the deadlocked talks and staffing cuts. The new contract, the union said, guarantees employees’ essential rights, secures raises across the board, and nearly doubles salary floors for the lowest-paid employees at The Washington Post.
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Who cares?
We’ve such a glut of fake news I didn’t even notice they were gone or missed
Now they can get back to lying about President Retard and his economy instead of holding out for more pay due to inflation they claimed.
WaPo is losing money. Maybe Amazon's CIA contract pays WaPo?
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