As The Sun‘s newsroom heads toward negotiations with management over a new contract, staffers went on social media today to highlight one of their top priorities: pay raises.
Reporters posted pictures holding the green balloons with an upward-pointing arrow and the words “Rai$e Our Pay Now.” In a couple photos, the balloons appeared to be tied to nearly every desk in the paper’s Port Covington newsroom.
A common message among the posts on Twitter: wages have remained stagnant for years.
Scott Dance, an environmental reporter at The Sun and chair of the paper’s bargaining unit in the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, said salaries are the group’s number one priority.
“We haven’t had an across the board raise since 2013, though our managers have gotten a couple since then. And we haven’t negotiated a new contract since 2007,” he said. “So it’s long past time that we raise these concerns and get a real raise.”
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6 comments:
Rag sheet for Democrat city. Don't deserve araise
I'm guessing the Socialists at the fishwrap don't realize that PROFITS bring pay raises...
For what ? Basically printing a crossword and comics.
The thing is hanging on for dear life anyway, I wouldn't push them too far.
With all of the firings they have money just sitting around, so they can easily pay more to the reporters they hire to lie for them.
If you work for a newspaper in 2019 you are lucky to have a job at all since hardly anyone actually reads "newspapers" anymore
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