And if the famous needle New York Times remained still? What would happen if the counter, fine-tuned for months in preparation for November 6 to allow its millions of readers to follow the outcome of the US presidential election, found itself blocked? In fact, on Tuesday afternoon, November 5, the indefinite strike started the day before by employees in everyday technology professions continued while election news was about to accelerate.
HE New York Times mobilized “more than a hundred reporters, photographers, videographers and data journalists” throughout the country to cover and analyze the results of the elections, the newspaper reports on its website, which does not reveal any disturbance.
“We know that this is a difficult strike day for our members, indicated the union in its X account, on Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. (Paris time). but we want to be clear: we are here because of the decisions of the leadership of the New York Times. » This, says the New York Times Guild, the newspaper’s main tech workers union, is a refusal to accede to the demands for increased wages and improved working conditions raised by the strikers.
However, negotiations continued until Sunday night. “The sticking points in recent days have been over whether workers can get a ‘just cause’ clause in their contract (meaning they can only be fired for misconduct or other such reasons); pay increases and equity salary; and return to office policies »indicates an article published on the newspaper’s website. It is also claimed that management informed all employees of their various proposals via email: “an annual salary increase of 2.5%, a minimum increase of 5% for promotions and a bonus of 1,000 dollars ». Insists on requiring two days a week of presence in the office until June and authorization to “work completely remotely for three weeks a year”.
Notice presented several months ago.
According to the union, 95% of its members (600 people (software engineers, product managers, etc.) involved in the operation of the website and the application) voted in favor of the strike. “for a fair salary (…) and flexible remote work”while the notice given several months ago could have made it possible to avoid this blocking situation.
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