 Bargaining between the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild and The Washington Post is “at a standstill,” reports the Guild. Even worse, publisher Fred Ryan, “in a strikingly tone-deaf email, crowed about the company's performance while announcing some staff reductions in commercial operations," says the Guild, which recently released a video in which Post workers express their frustration with the Post’s demands for cuts and takebacks. “Journalists don’t have an off-button, we don’t go home at the end of the day and stop being journalists,” Post art critic Phillip Kennicott says, “so it’s important for the new ownership of the Post to understand what a deep reservoir of value in its people it has.” The Guild contract at the Post, now owned by billionaire Amazon.com founder/CEO Jeff Bezos, expired Oct. 31.
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