| Date |
Headlines |
| July 29, 2008 |
'Post Radio,' Onion Unfair Labor Practice Charge Results |
| July
21, 2008 |
Bargaining
Survey for Guild Contract [PDF] |
| July
17, 2008 |
Guild
Bargaining Committee Selected; Holds First Meeting |
July 9, 2008
|
Guild Releases Data on Washington Post Salaries
(First in a series of financial bulletins leading up to the beginning of contract talks.)
(Salary charts) |
| June
6, 2008 |
David
Simon Entertains, Inspires Guild-Covered Employees |
| May
14, 2008 |
Meet
HBO ("The Wire") Producer David Simon at the Post Pub
on May 21 |
| April
10, 2008 |
Post-Partum
Advice From Guild Veterans |
| March
27, 2008 |
Guild
Wins Financial, Eligibility Improvements in Buyout Bargaining |
| March 17, 2008 |
Bargaining Over Guild Buyout Begins |
| March 12, 2008 |
Hull and Priest Win Heywood Broun Award |
| Feb. 11, 2008 |
Facts on the Buyout |
| Nov. 28, 2007 |
Unfair Labor Practice Trial Concludes; Verdict Expected in Spring 2008 |
| Nov. 12, 2007 |
Tell Management: 'I'm Stickin' With the Union' |
| Oct. 22, 2007 |
Post Unfair Labor Practice Trial Begins |
| Oct. 18, 2007 |
Health-Insurance Sticker Shock |
| April 25, 2007 |
Post Jettisons Core Principle in Effort to Escape Labor Ruling |
| Jan. 25, 2007 |
Devaluations Stir Concerns |
|
April 25, 2006 |
Guild Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Citing Post Refusal to Bargain Over Radio Work |
|
April 12, 2006 |
Guild Negotiates Improvements to Post Buyout |
|
March 23, 2006 |
Guild Proposes Fair Compensation for Radio Work |
|
March 17, 2006 |
Guild Demands Talks Over Radio Work |
|
Feb. 21, 2006 |
Post and WPNI Accept, Implement Guild Recommendations on Blogging |
|
Feb. 17, 2006 |
Of Radio Free Washington Post, Hate Bloggs and Blogging for Free |
| November 21, 2005 |
Washington Post Labor Contract Ratified |
|
Nov. 11, 2005 |
Guild-Post 2005-2008 Contract Highlights
[Comparison Contract: 81-page PDF ] |
|
Nov. 8, 2005 |
Guild Reaches Three-Year Contract at Post [PDF] |
|
Nov. 2, 2005 |
Let's Talk About Money |
|
Oct. 27, 2005 |
Guild Presents Comprehensive Contract Proposal |
|
Oct. 20, 2005 |
Post Demands Faster Firing |
|
Oct. 6, 2005 |
What Does the Post Know? And When Did It Know It? |
|
Oct. 4, 2005 |
Post to Guild Workers: Thanks for the Work! But Sorry, We Can't Pay You. |
|
Sept. 29, 2005 |
Guild to Post: Improve Our Pension Plan |
|
Sept. 23, 2005 |
Guild to Post: This Is Our Economic Reality |
|
Sept. 15, 2005 |
First Day of Contract Talks at Post |
|
Sept. 6, 2005 |
Unit Meeting Set for Sept. 8; Talks Begin Sept. 14 |
|
May 4, 2005 |
It's Contract Time And We Need Your Input! |
| May
3, 2005 |
|
| March
9, 2005 |
|
| Feb.
1, 2005 |
Pay
at The Post: The Myth of Merit |
| Jan.
25, 2005 |
|
| Dec.
3, 2004 |
Post
Ethics?
Management seeks to terminate 37-year employee
Bonnie Silva after it raised productivity
standards that she now has trouble meeting.
In so doing, management seems to violate
the spirit of its own ethics code, which
declares in part the Washington Post’s “strong
principles guiding the way we …treat each
other” and “we recognize how we greatly
benefit from long-term employees…” |
| Nov.
15, 2004 |
|
| Sept.
28, 2004 |
Q:
When is a 7% increase really a 30%increase?
A: When Washington Post management talks
about
health insurance costs. |
| Sept.
1, 2004 |
Weigh
In On Disease Management |
| July
29, 2004 |
Guild
Takes Classified Ad Call Center Issues to
Post |
| June
21, 2004 |
Merit
Pay at The Post: Part 2 -- Sex, Salary &
Seniority
A
Guild review of data finds merit pay is
not spread evenly among the talent
at The Post. |
| May
24, 2004 |
Outsourcing
Hits Home: Employees Gain Additional Protection
Through Union Bargaining
The
Guild has won an important economic safety
net for workers affected by The Post’s contracting
out of DC jobs to Wisconsin. While The Post
will, regrettably, move work out of the
DC area in which it does business, current
workers will be better protected economically.
|
| May
4, 2004 |
Outsourcing
Hits Home: Post to Move Guild Work to Wisconsin
for Cheap Labor
Implementation June 14—No
Long-Term Guarantees for Current Call Center
Staff |
|
March
29, 2004
(This
a printable PDF format and may take a
few moments to download)
|
Washington
Post Merit Pay Depends Less On Performance,
More On What You Are |
| March
10, 2004 |
Fair
Treatment in Foul Weather |
| March
9, 2004 |
Every
Job Counts: Don’t Send Post Jobs Out
of State. Outsourcing of American
jobs has become a controversial political
issue in the upcoming presidential campaign,
and The Washington Post newspaper has been
covering it closely. But within The Post
Company, the outsourcing of some of our
jobs has quietly begun on an experimental
basis and it threatens to rob Guild members
here of their livelihoods. |
| Feb.
2, 2004 |
Post
Guild Veterans Take Buyout: They Built
Guild
Bob Levey on the Guild
Continuous News Update |
| Nov.
12, 2003 |
Guild
Bargains for Fairness in VRIP Eligibility
Rules |
| Oct.
22, 2003 |
Health
Insurance Changes Coming |
| Oct.
7, 2003 |
Guild
Honors Customer Service Professional Day
Honoring Guild Unit Members Who Keep Compay
Revenues Flowing |
| Sept.
29, 2003 |
Progress
Possible on Continuous News |
| July
10, 2003 |
Continuous
News Blues.
There is something hollow in Post management’s
recent call for newsroom employees to get
excited about the newly dawning age of online
"Continuous News Coverage". |
| July
2, 2003 |
|
| May
15, 2003 |
|
| Jan.
10 , 2003 |
|
| Nov.
14, 2002 |
Guild
Membership Ratifies 3-Year Contract |
| Oct.
30, 2002 |
Contract
Settlement Reached
- Gains in Wages, Pensions, Differential
- Union Security Maintained
Guild
and company negotiators Tuesday night
reached a tentative agreement on a new
three-year contract which, if ratified
by members, would end the vigorous and
spirited battle the union has waged since
last spring.
|
| Oct.
21, 2002 |
Does
the Post’s Merit Pay System Work for
You? |
| Oct.
15, 2002 |
Heading
for the Home Stretch? We Hope So.
In
the wake of the byline strike a federal
mediator called representatives from the
two sides together for an off-the-record
meeting last week, which resulted in a commitment
to resume formal bargaining on Oct. 28.
Guild negotiators are hopeful that Post
management is ready to make critical movement
in the areas that have until now delayed
a settlement. But that will require some
honest accounting on The Post’s part. |
| Sept.
24 , 2002 |
Byline
Strike
Starts Oct. 1:
-- Five-Day Action Begins with Tuesday Editions
For Stories, Photos, Columns & Artwork
-- Renewed Halt Called for "Voluntary”
Writing for Web Site and All Other Free
Labor for the Post
Based on Washington Post corporate
management’s clear contempt for fair
bargaining and its transparent efforts to
weaken and eventually eliminate The Newspaper
Guild, we are calling for another, longer
BYLINE STRIKE for the editions
of October 1 through October 5. We are also
calling for a renewed moratorium on writing
“voluntary” stories on early
deadline specifically for the Washingtonpost.com
Web site. |
| Sept.
19 , 2002 |
Guild
Members Vote 'NO'on Company Proposals; Endorse
Stronger Actions
On Sept. 18, Guild members voted
unanimously to reject Post management’s
proposals that would essentially provide
pay raises averaging little more than 1
percent and weaken the Guild. Members endorsed
another byline strike and called for a renewed,
stronger boycott of additional “web”
work for Washingtonpost.com. In addition,
the Guild will seek subscriber “pledges”
to communicate to the company that its anti-union
positions are unacceptable. |
| Aug.
27, 2002 |
Tell
The Post to Stop Stalling
Our last contract salary increase is a year
old today! How long are we willing to wait
for the next one? |
| July
29, 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Fruits
of Your Labor V: Second
Quarter in Perspective
There are a variety of ways to look at the
Washington Post Co.’s second-quarter
financial results, released July 19. But
any way you slice them, the numbers don’t
reflect the gloomy scenario painted by company
negotiators at the bargaining table and
in their literature since March. |
| July
19, 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Members
Say: 'Save Our Union'
At
a capacity-crowd membership meeting at the
historic AME Church, Guild
members strongly rejected Washington Post
management’s attempts to strip union
protections out of the contract. . By contrast,
members voiced strong support for a number
of actions to push the paper to reach a
fair settlement –- two months since
our contract expired. |
| July
16, 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Labor
Logjam at the Post
After nearly five months of difficult negotiations,
your Guild bargaining committee still finds
itself seriously at odds with Washington
Post management on several key issues. |
| July
11 , 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Fruits
of Your Labor IV: Counting Their
Pennies (and Dimes)
Guild member and Foreign Desk editor
Keith Sinzinger compares the Post's revenue
enhancements to management's pay proposal
for Guild covered employees. |
| June
25 , 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Where
We Stand
The three major points of contention holding
up an agreement between The Post and the
Guild involve PAY, VACATION and UNION VIABILITY.
The union has resisted Post take-back proposals
in these areas because of their importance
to the 1,450 employees represented by the
Guild. |
|
|
Free
Speech – Washington
Post Style
The
Washington Post,as we all know,is firmly
committed to the fullest expressions of
free speech and democracy —with one
exception:when it comes to its own employees
having a meaningful and strong voice in
the workplace.
|
| June
11 , 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Guild
Action Moves to Web Site -- Union
Calls Halt to ‘Voluntary’ dotcom Duty
Guild calls for a halt to writing news stories
for the WashingtonPost.com web site. |
| May
21 , 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Fruits
of Your Labor III: Don Graham’s
Salary Freeze –and Yours
Guild member and Foreign Desk editor
Keith Sinzinger compares Washington Post
CEO and chairman Donald E.Graham's pay
freeze (locked in at $399,996) to managment's
proposal to freeze employees' pay this
year. Third in a series.
|
| May
20 , 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
THE
MYTHOLOGY OF MERIT PAY:
Nearly 7 of 10 of Us Don't Get It... And
If You Don't Get It, You Don't Get It.
Did you know that less than one of every
three of us who put out the Washington Post
every day has any merit?? That's pretty
much the message that is contained in Post
"merit pay" data. A Guild analysis of the
most recent data shows that only 31 percent
of the 1,450 people covered by the Guild
contract EVER got a single merit raise during
the three-year life of the 1999-2002 contract
that expired May 18th. |
| May
13 , 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Fruits
of Your Labor II: Who's Optimistic?
Guild
member and Foreign Desk editor Keith Sinzinger
takes a look at spending, acquisitions
and allegations of illegal conduct by
the Post. Second in a series.
|
| April
30 , 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Guild
to Post: "You Can't Take It With
You"
The
Guild proposes to improve the pension
plan. Post management continues to refuse
to do it. The pension trust fund has a
huge surplus. The modest improvements
we propose are easily affordable, offering
a better deal to employees who have served
The Post for many years while continuing
to leave the fund all but bloated with
funds to cover the needs of future retirees.
|
| April
22 , 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Bargaining
Intensifies
The Post has offered proposals that would
leave employees worse off, both economically
and with regard to workplace rights. Here
are some details: to help you get a sense
of what’s going on and where things stand.
|
| April
11 , 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Guild
Says 'No' To Attempted Take-Backs |
|
April
4 , 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Bemoaning
'Business Climate,' Management Presents
Opening Proposals |
|
March
19 , 2002
(For
a printable PDF version, click here)
|
Fruits
of Your Labor I: Post
Profits in Perspective
As another round of collective bargaining
between the Newspaper Guild and The Post
draws near, Guild
member and Foreign Desk editor Keith Sinzinger
takes a look at the Post's bottom line.
First in a series. |
| Feb.
4 , 2002 |
What
the Guild Has Meant to the Post's Judy Mann
Judy Mann retired Dec. 31 after
nearly three decades as a reporter and columnist
at the Washington Post. The following was
distributed in a Guild flyer in early Februrary.
|
| Dec.
3 , 2001 |
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| Oct.
23 , 2001 |
Now
More Than Ever--The Guild
Support of the Union through your membership
is critical, now more than ever.
|
| Sept.
10 , 2001 |
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| July
16, 2001 |
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Dec.
21, 2000 |
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|
Oct.
18, 2000 |
Post
Declares Company Cyberspace Off-Limits
to Union
|
|
Aug.
7, 2000 |
Working
Like a Digital Dog at the Washington Post
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