METRO WASHINGTON LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO
  • Home
  • Board & Staff
  • Who We Are
  • Calendar
  • Evening With Labor
    • Archive >
      • 2021 Evening With Labor
      • 2019 Evening With Labor
      • 2017 Evening With Labor
      • 2018 Evening With Labor
      • 2015 Evening With Labor
      • 2016 Evening With Labor
  • Stay Connected
  • Programs
    • Community Services >
      • Espanol
      • Mission
      • Donate Now
      • Programs
      • Funders
      • Archives
    • Political Action >
      • Archive
      • Mission
      • Elected Officials
      • Endorsements
      • DMV Voters Guide
      • Candidate Questionnaires: Archive 2006-2014 >
        • 2018
        • 2016
        • 2015
        • 2014
        • Other
        • 2012
        • 2010
        • 2008
        • 2007
        • 2006
    • DC unemployment appeals
  • Hiring Hall
    • ADMINISTRATIVE
    • COMMUNICATIONS
    • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
    • INTERNSHIPS
    • LEGAL
    • MISC
    • ORGANIZING
    • POLITICAL
    • RESEARCH
  • Affiliates

Guild Fires Up Picket at the Post

11/18/2014

1 Comment

 
“We really should have brought a fire barrel,” laughed NoVA president Dan Duncan as dozens of Washington Post staffers, fellow Guild members and supporters tramped in a tight noontime picket-line Tuesday bundled up in winter coats, hats and scarves against the biting cold. “The louder we chant the warmer we’ll be!” shouted Guild Bargaining Committee member Tim Smith as colorful balloons bobbed in the icy wind on 15th Street...  
- report/photos by Chris Garlock
“Negotiations are in a really really tough place,” Guild Co-Chair Frederick Kunkle told Union City. Post management “has dumped a lot of terrible take-backs on the table,” including freezing pensions and attacks on retirement benefits and job security. “We’re just going to keep mobilizing to make this be a place where we can take a stand for treating workers fairly.”

"I don't like how they're trying to rip something away from us when there's no pressing need," financial writer Michael Fletcher said. "Listen. I respect [new Post owner] Jeff Bezos for the investments he has made in the paper. I've seen new faces in the newsroom. That's great. But there's no reason to freeze the pension. It's over-funded. It's just unnecessary."

Fletcher was referring to the pension, which includes workers hired before 2009. It is over-funded by more than 200 percent. It hasn't needed a dime in 20 years and won't need a cent for at least another 20 .

Pat Jacob, who works in advertising, said she's proud to work at the Post. "I feel good about the product we provide. I feel good about the advertisers we work with," she said. 
She marched during her lunch break with a heavy jacket pulled tight against the cutting wind. "We're going to stay out here," she said. "Because what they're trying to do to us just isn't fair." 
- includes reporting by Robert Struckman
1 Comment
David Harding
11/19/2014 01:06:33 am

Hang in there. Let me know about any rallies, demonstrations or other actions after work hours or on weekends that you want supporters to attend.

Solidarity forever... an injury to one is an injury to all. I am an AFSCME member and activist in Baltimore.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

      Sign up here for the latest DC-area labor news!

    Subscribe to Newsletter

    COMMUNITY SERVICES

    EN ESPANOL

    DC UNEMPLOYMENT APPEALS

    LEGISLATIVE UPDATES

    Tweets by @DCLabor

    ​Leaders & Staff

    AFFILIATES

    Constitution

    Documents

    AFFILIATE Social Media

    HIRING HALL

    Evening with Labor

    Union City News

    UNION SHOP

    UNION PLUS

Share any story to Facebook, Twitter or via email!
Just click on the story ​and then click on the  social media icon!
COPYRIGHT METRO WASHINGTON LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO 2023
202-974-8150; [email protected]
  • Home
  • Board & Staff
  • Who We Are
  • Calendar
  • Evening With Labor
    • Archive >
      • 2021 Evening With Labor
      • 2019 Evening With Labor
      • 2017 Evening With Labor
      • 2018 Evening With Labor
      • 2015 Evening With Labor
      • 2016 Evening With Labor
  • Stay Connected
  • Programs
    • Community Services >
      • Espanol
      • Mission
      • Donate Now
      • Programs
      • Funders
      • Archives
    • Political Action >
      • Archive
      • Mission
      • Elected Officials
      • Endorsements
      • DMV Voters Guide
      • Candidate Questionnaires: Archive 2006-2014 >
        • 2018
        • 2016
        • 2015
        • 2014
        • Other
        • 2012
        • 2010
        • 2008
        • 2007
        • 2006
    • DC unemployment appeals
  • Hiring Hall
    • ADMINISTRATIVE
    • COMMUNICATIONS
    • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
    • INTERNSHIPS
    • LEGAL
    • MISC
    • ORGANIZING
    • POLITICAL
    • RESEARCH
  • Affiliates