{"id":1767292,"date":"2022-12-08T08:36:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767292"},"modified":"2022-12-08T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:48:21","slug":"1100-ny-times-employees-go-on-24-hour-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1100-ny-times-employees-go-on-24-hour-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"1,100 NY Times Employees Go On 24-Hour Strike"},"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\">16<\/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%2F1100-ny-times-employees-go-on-24-hour-strike%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=1767292&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-547524708-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">More than 1,100\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0employees are set to go on a 24-hour strike that begins on Thursday, December 8, at midnight, following the company\u2019s failure to reach an agreement with the <em>Times<\/em>\u2019 union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and others are encouraging readers not to \u201ccross the digital picket line\u201d and boycott the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0for 24 hours while the union workers are on strike.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Bowman\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamaalbowmanny\/status\/1600680866346569728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Peace and love, everyone. Tonight at midnight, 1,100 journalists from the New York Times are going to be going on a 24-hour strike. Do not cross the digital picket line. Let us stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters who are walking off the job in protest to make sure they earn the wages they deserve. Let us not cross the digital picket line. Let\u2019s stand with them and tell your friends \u201cdo not consume their news from the New York Times tomorrow. We\u2019ll get it from somewhere else but stand with our brothers and sisters in labor, peace and love.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight at midnight, 1,100 workers at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a> are going on a 24 hour strike. Here\u2019s what you can do\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Do not engage with any of the New York Times platforms. DO NOT CROSS THE DIGITAL PICKET LINE. Get your news from other sources and tell your friends to do the same. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyguild?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nyguild<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Eu9Cha4aFg\">pic.twitter.com\/Eu9Cha4aFg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamaal Bowman Ed.D (@JamaalBowmanNY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamaalBowmanNY\/status\/1600680866346569728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>NewsGuild of New York\u2019s second vice president Amanda Hess similarly called for a boycott of the paper for one whole day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak,\u201d Hess\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amandahess\/status\/1600547516059045890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re asking readers to not engage in any <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a> platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amanda Hess (@amandahess) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amandahess\/status\/1600547516059045890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The over 1,100\u00a0<em>Times\u00a0<\/em>workers who plan to go on strike for 24 hours make up a significant portion of the roughly 1,800 people who work in the\u00a0<em>Times\u2019\u00a0<\/em>newsroom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The strike comes amid unsuccessful negotiations between the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and the New York Times Guild to renegotiate the last contract that expired in March 2021. Since the contract\u2019s expiration, roughly 40 bargaining sessions have occurred between the parties, but negotiators have failed to come to an agreement on salaries and health and retirement benefits, among other issues.<\/p>\n<p>As the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/07\/business\/media\/new-york-times-union-walkout.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Compensation remains the most contentious aspect of the negotiations. The Times has offered union members a 5.5 percent raise upon ratification of the contract, 3 percent raises in 2023 and 2024, and a 4 percent retroactive bonus to compensate for a lack of raises since the contract expired. The union has proposed a 10 percent raise upon ratification, 5.5 percent raises in 2023 and 2024, and an 8.5 percent retroactive bonus.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>New York Times<\/em> executive editor Joe Kahn\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/07\/business\/media\/new-york-times-union-walkout.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0the company will continue to report the news as usual during Thursday\u2019s strike but said, \u201cit will be harder than usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employees participating in the strike are expected to protest outside the\u00a0<em>Times\u2019\u00a0<\/em>main office building at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, where journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is slated to speak.<\/p>\n<p><em>New York Times<\/em> employees rarely go on strike, with a brief\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/07\/business\/media\/new-york-times-union-walkout.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walkout<\/a>\u00a0that lasted less than one day in 2017 to protest the elimination of the copy desk. Before that, the previous strike occurred in 1978, which lasted 88 days.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jordan Dixon-Hamilton is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"mailto:jdixonhamilton@breitbart.com\"><i>jdixonhamilton@breitbart.com<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0or follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sirhottest\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,100\u00a0New York Times\u00a0employees are set to go on a 24-hour strike that begins on Thursday, December 8, at midnight, following the company\u2019s failure to reach an agreement with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1098580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767292","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}