NYT journalists urge bosses to settle contract dispute
In this video, Pulitzer-winning Times journalists Kevin Sack, Dan Barry and Amy Harmon call on Times management “to end the strife gripping the newsroom.”
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NY Times journalist seem very smart. You care about the guild, but do you care about NYT stockholders. You want big pensions not offered to most in private sector instead of 401K. You ask for compensation for “work you do” but your STOCK is down 85% since 2000. That is epic value destruction. Help NYT creater value and you WILL be paid.
I think it’s a losing proposition. For one thing, the NYT is no longer owned by Schulzbergs, it’s owned by Carlos Slim, an Arabic Mexican guy who swindled the Mexican government, had patronage, and screwed over the workers at the Mexican telephone company. The NYT can’t keep paying people high salaries at this point.
NYT journalists and other union members need to acknowledge that its company is not delivering value to shareholders and become part of the solution, not the problem.