Staffers of The Washington Submit picketed in entrance of the media outlet’s Ok Road headquarters on Thursday, staging a 24-hour walkout to protest the shortage of a brand new settlement with the newsroom union and the phrases of a buyout supply.
The Washington Submit Guild was urging readers to keep away from Submit journalism for the day in solidarity with the staffers.
Greater than 700 staffers had been anticipated to strike on Thursday, based on the Submit’s personal account. Non-union editors and different managers had been anticipated to attempt to fill the roles, together with reporting and posting tales.
“After 18 months of bargaining with Washington Submit, Guild employees — together with reporters, editors, cartoonists, visible journalists, promoting gross sales folks and circulation drivers — are strolling out. Regardless of a 12 months and a half of efforts, Submit administration has refused to cut price in good religion for a good contract that retains up with inflation and our competitors,” the guild mentioned this week.
Submit employees in different cities, together with New York and San Francisco, additionally had been anticipated to strike on Thursday.
The guild is also protesting the phrases of a buyout supply, made to some 240 staffers, as inadequate.
In a letter to readers, the guild mentioned, “As an alternative of executives bearing the load of this mismanagement, The Submit repeatedly made employees pay the value. Within the final 12 months, the corporate has laid off practically 40 folks. If buyouts don’t internet one other 240 cuts, Submit leaders warned extra layoffs will come.”
A spokesperson for the Submit didn’t instantly return a request for remark. However an organization spokesperson informed the Submit, in its personal report on the walkout, “We respect the rights of our Guild-covered colleagues to interact on this deliberate one-day strike. We’ll be certain that our readers and prospects are as unaffected as doable.”
A 12 months in the past, greater than 1,100 workers of The New York Occasions staged a strike in protest of a stalemate in contract talks. They guild attain a take care of administration a number of months later, and a brand new contract was ratified in June.
