{"id":1660939,"date":"2022-09-27T17:49:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T21:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660939"},"modified":"2022-09-27T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T21:50:42","slug":"inflation-bites-nyt-union-demands-annual-8-percent-pay-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inflation-bites-nyt-union-demands-annual-8-percent-pay-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation Bites: NYT Union Demands Annual 8 Percent Pay Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finflation-bites-nyt-union-demands-annual-8-percent-pay-raise%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660939&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>staffers are weighing a strike as salary disputes between the <em>Times<\/em> union and its management hit an impasse,\u00a0<em>Insider\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/possibility-of-a-strike-at-the-new-york-times-2022-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amid record-high inflation, the<em>\u00a0Times<\/em> staffers are demanding an 8 percent annual salary increase year-over-year for four years. <em>Times<\/em> management said the demands were beyond reasonable bounds and offered a 4 percent increase for one year and a 2 percent increase the following two years, plus a 1 percent merit-based pay hike.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times Guild&#8217;s demands are &#8220;far outside the bounds for any organization, especially in such an uncertain economic climate,&#8221; a spokesperson for the <em>Times<\/em> told\u00a0<em>Insider<\/em>. This year the national average annual salary increase is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/06\/09\/more-pay-raises-are-on-the-way-for-many-workers-this-year.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4.8 percent<\/a>, the biggest pay bump in a decade, according to a Pearl Meyer report in June. With inflation at a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/prices-rise-in-august-surprising-economists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">record<\/a> 8.3 percent this year,\u00a0<em>Times\u00a0<\/em>employees are asking for almost double that average\u2014for four years straight.<\/p>\n<p>The union rejected the counter offer, stating the proposed hikes are vital given that soaring inflation has burdened employees with a higher cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, 1,300 <em>Times<\/em>\u00a0employees stayed home <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/12\/nearly-1300-new-york-times-workers-pledge-not-to-return-to-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in protest<\/a> after the company mandated staff return to the office at least three days a week. In August, the Guild released a lengthy report that accused the <em>Times <\/em>of treating white employees <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nyt-union-accuses-paper-of-systemic-racism-in-performance-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more favorably<\/a> than its minority employees, the\u00a0<em>Washington Free Beacon\u00a0<\/em>reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think people feel that management doesn\u2019t listen unless everybody is beside themselves and ready to walk out the door, so if that\u2019s what it\u2019s going to take, then that\u2019s what it\u2019s going to take,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/27\/ny-times-staffers-mull-strike-as-management-balks-at-salary-demands\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Frances Robles, a <em>Times<\/em> correspondent and member of the union\u2019s bargaining committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times\u00a0staffers are weighing a strike as salary disputes between the Times union and its management hit an impasse,\u00a0Insider\u00a0reported.<br \/>\nThe post Inflation Bites: NYT Union Demands Annual 8 Percent Pay Raise appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}