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Baltimore Sun - Guild News March 2, 2005 Put
The Company's Free Lunch To Good Use Now that you've got your lunch voucher, the Guild has a suggestion for what you can do with the money you're saving -- send it to some people who need it, our fellow Guild members in Youngstown, Ohio who are on strike against the stingy owners of their newspaper, the Vindicator. Approximately 170 members of Youngstown Newspaper Guild Local 34011 -- reporters, photographers, copy editors, page designers, library clerks, delivery drivers, circulation district managers, secretaries and classified advertising salespeople -- walked out on Nov. 4. They had endured four years of wage freezes, over the course of two contracts. The publisher's "final" offer called for a three-year contact with raises of one percent, one percent and two percent. The minimum raise would've been 10 cents an hour. For more than 100 employees that would mean a pay raise of 80 cents a day! On top of that would have been increases in health care costs and limited overtime. Strikers are receiving $300 a week in strike benefits. Ironically, because of the low pay at the Vindicator, for a significant number of employees this strike benefit is actually a pay raise. But plenty are suffering financially. So let's help them out. Though the Vindicator is an independent paper, it has gotten scabs from sympathetic fellow newspaper owners of places like the Times-Picayune in New Orleans as it continues to publish. These scabs are making much more than the Vindicator is offering its own workers. The strikers have their own newspaper available online -- the Valleyvoiceonline.com -- that's a good source of information about the situation. And, you can subscribe for just $6 a month to show your continuing support. The
Guild will try to have people collecting
your donations during lunchtime at the cafeteria.
But if you don't see anyone and want to
contribute, give the money to your mobilizer
or shop steward and they will see that it
gets to the right place.
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