Journalists and other categories of staff decided to stop work twenty-four hours after the failure of wages and the collective agreement, according to the Newsguild of New York press union.
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More than a thousand New York Times employees began a strike on Thursday, December 8 at midnight, to claim employee revaluations, especially due to inflation, which had not happened for forty years, according to their union.
Journalists and other categories of staff decided to stop work twenty-four hours after the failure of wages and the collective agreement, according to the Newsguild of New York press union. “More than 1,100 New York Times workers have now stopped work, a first of this magnitude in four decades,” the union organization announced on Twitter.
The movement should not prevent the publication of everyday life on Friday. “During the raising, non -unionized employees of the editorial hall will be largely responsible for the production of information”, confirms a article published on the daily website. A demonstration took place in the evening in front of the newspaper’s headquarters.
In a press release, a spokesperson for management assures that salary negotiations have not failed and regrets “that [employees] come to extreme actions, while we are not in a dead end”.
The American written press, long flourishing and prestigious, suffered like all the major media of the pandemic, and it is today affected by inflation.