NYT staffers take protest to shareholders’ meeting
The Newspaper Guild of New York sends this message:
About 65 to 70 Reporters and Editors from the Newsroom at The New York Times formed a silent gauntlet at this morning’s Times Company annual stockholders meeting. They lined up in the lobby of The Times building in Manhattan and handed out leaflets that contained a highly critical analysis of the company’s position during 13 months of bargaining with the Guild. That analysis was written by Times Labor Reporter Steven Greenhouse.
They also leafletted outside the meeting with a banner and large sign that said: “Without Us, it’s just White Space.”
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and other Sulzberger family members as well as other Times executives were also forced to walk past the lined up staffers, who are getting angrier by the day about the lack of progress on a fair contract…and the company’s continuing demands for a ten to fifteen percent cut in compensation.
More info and Photos of the protest can be found on the New York Guild’s Facebook page.
Interesting that the union doesn’t know AP style (“Reporters and Editors”).
Shouldn’t the newspaper guild know the difference between gauntlet and gantlet? Ugh.
Gosh, gee, now that it’s happening to New York Times reporters, these class issues about unions, workers’ rights, and workers’ treatment suddenly become (cue the music) THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE THERE IS.
Keep reporting on how unemployment is only 7 or 8 percent guys. Keep making no distinction about how many of the “new jobs” are McJobs that will leave people, at the end of their work lives, with no possible way to retire. Keep not covering Occupy Wall Street and the serious issues it is trying to bring to the public’s attention.
…and keep pretending your man in DC is doing a great job and we all love him and his minions taking over every aspect of American lives.
Well, kids, if you are still in journalism school after even the New York Times journos are walking out the door in frustration, you deserve the desultory future you get.
(And Occupy Wall Street and “serious issues” do not belong in the same sentence. I bet the OWSers are all journalism majors!)