News Guild members at the Washington Post last week ratified a tentative agreement with the Post. “This isn’t the contract that Washington Post workers wanted or deserved,” said Fredrick Kunkle, staff writer and co-chair of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild’s bargaining unit at the Post. “But,” he said, “we also believe things would be much worse without this contract. We’re proud to have fought off a number of proposals that would have given more power to the owner and further undermined his employees’ financial well-being.” Kunkle added that the new contract’s “stinginess” — less than 1 percent a year in pay increases, no more than four weeks’ parental leave, and a 401(k) match and retirement plan that the union says is almost a joke — says more about the Post’s owner and top management than it does about the merits of its staff.
For the latest local labor calendar, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today's labor history, on this date in 1969, hospital workers won 113-day union recognition strike in Charleston, South Carolina. Today’s labor quote is by Mary Moultrie, one of the leaders of the 1969 Charleston Hospital strike. Mary Moultrie, who said: “We marched, we picketed and many of us did whatever we needed to do to make the marches a success. We had nightly rallies and we boycotted businesses.”
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