Tuesday, September 24, 2024

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 IT workers at the New York Times are threatening to strike on Election Day unless some rather crazy demands are met.  The Semafor website reported on September 18: 

Leaders at The New York Times are concerned that protracted contract negotiations with the paper’s unionized tech employees could disrupt its election coverage.

The Times Tech Guild — a union of 600 members, largely software engineers, which operates separately from the newsroom union — voted overwhelmingly to authorize a potential strike, Axios reported earlier this week, dangling the possibility that workers could walk off the job during the election in November....

Both sides have accused the other of engaging in a lengthy negotiation process that has stretched over two years. The Guild has put forward a number of proposals that management has balked at in totality, including a four-day work week coupled with significant increases in pay, full coverage of all health care premiums for employees and family members, guaranteed RSU grants for all members of the unit, and non-performance-based annual bonuses, all of which the company estimates would cost over $100 million over three years.

Management says that the Guild has bogged down negotiations with what the paper sees as outlandish, even illegal, proposals. As Semafor previously reported, the Guild proposed a ban on scented products in break rooms, unlimited break time, and accommodations for pet bereavement, as well as mandatory trigger warnings in company meetings discussing events in the news.

Times management has been frustrated by proposals that would provide more money for nonwhite staff and others from underrepresented communities to attend conferences, and language that would prioritize non-citizens in the US on visas in the case of layoffs — both of which the paper pointed out couldn’t be fulfilled because they likely violate employment laws.  Rest of article.

The IT workers are also demanding the right to not work on certain advertiser content and the right to reject letters to the editor. 

You can't make this up.  

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Wall Street Journal recently reported tech jobs are getting harder to get, and will probably get harder with more AI stuff. Let them walk off and get a lesson in supply and demand.

Anonymous said...

Your need for trigger warnings just proves you are unfit to help continue the human race.

Anonymous said...

Not a NYT supporter BUT...their online election graphs are excellent and honest.

Anonymous said...

Regardless of the cost (which has been mentioned by the employer), these demands are outrageous and the employer is correct in rejecting each and every one of them.

Another example of the length a union will go to to take over management of a company.

1) a four-day work week coupled with significant increases in pay

2) full coverage of all health care premiums for employees and family members

3) guaranteed RSU grants for all members of the unit

4) non-performance-based annual bonuses

Triggered! said...

Ha! The woke Gray Lady doesn't like the woke IT union demands. "Pet bereavement! Unlimited break time! Trigger warnings" You can't make this stuff up.

Anonymous said...

People still read the new york times?

Anonymous said...

"more money for nonwhite staff and others from underrepresented communities to attend conferences, and language that would prioritize non-citizens in the US on visas in the case of layoffs — both of which the paper pointed out couldn’t be fulfilled because they likely violate employment laws."

Apparently, the labor union negotiator doesn't know basic labor law, like you can't discriminate on the basis of race.

DEI in action. They wanted it. They got it. Now they have to deal with it.

Anonymous said...

NYT..the saying "you reap what you sow" comes to mind. They were all in on the DEI liberal agenda, until they weren't. They created that mess, they can deal with it. Same with the other corporations that caved to the woke agenda.

Anonymous said...

... their online election graphs are excellent and honest.


How do you know they are 'honest'?

cholly said...

10:00 knows the election graphs are honest because he agrees with the graphs. If 10:00 disagreed the graphs would be disinformation.

Anonymous said...

They want more pay and an extra day off every week. Yep.

Anonymous said...

Competent professionals are doing just fine in IT. I am earning more than I have ever earned in my 25 years. The only people struggling are the do-nothing DEI hires, the incompetent "boot camp" coders, and the cyber security "experts" who lack a basic understanding of networking. Basically, the useless deadweight that always gets dropped when it is time to tighten up the belt.

Anonymous said...

4:52 for today's win. Reality is a bitch.

Anonymous said...

4:52 is 100% correct. If you werent laid off from a bankrupt company then you were dead weight

Anonymous said...

"If you werent laid off from a bankrupt company then you were dead weight"

Has AI started drinking?

Anonymous said...

What has this to do with local politics KF? What axe are you grinding outside of the three counties you swim in? Stick to you knitting.

Anonymous said...

No free donuts at breaks. What's wrong with these Losers?


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