More than a thousand employees of The New York Times They carried out a strike between midnight on Thursday and Friday due to the lack of an agreement with the company to increase wages, an unprecedented event in four decades.
Hundreds of people gathered on Thursday in front of the headquarters of the New York Times Company, in western Manhattan, in an atmosphere of demand, although at times festive.
The Times union said its members are “willing to do whatever it takes to get a better newsroom for all.”
Management, he said, continues to reject the $65,000-a-year wage floor and its proposal “lags far behind both inflation and the average rate of earnings gains in the United States.”
According to a note in the newspaper: “The contract between The Times and The New York Times Guild expired in March 2021 and about forty bargaining sessions have been held since then.”
The company said it has proposed a general wage increase of “11.5%” in three years from the signing of a new collective agreement.
“We were ready to work for as long as it took to reach a fair agreement,” the union said, “but management walked off the table with five hours to go.”
The NewsGuild, the union, made good on its promise to stop if the parties involved failed to reach an agreement in negotiations, which broke down on Wednesday night.
The Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008, Paul Krugman, who has a column in the Timessaid that he did not present his collaboration to show his empathy with the unemployment.
Nikole Hannah Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, stated: “I’m not angry. I am just deeply disappointed in our company. You shouldn’t have to struggle financially to work for a place like The New York Timeswhatever your position.”
According to the results of the third quarter, the company registered a turnover of 547 million dollars compared to 509 million in the same period of 2021, an increase of 7.6% year-on-year.
