Post by demopublican on Apr 27, 2019 9:05:48 GMT -5
As The Sun‘s newsroom heads toward negotiations with management over a new contract, staffers went on social media today to highlight one of their top priorities: pay raises.
Reporters posted pictures holding the green balloons with an upward-pointing arrow and the words “Rai$e Our Pay Now.” In a couple photos, the balloons appeared to be tied to nearly every desk in the paper’s Port Covington newsroom.
Scott Dance, an environmental reporter at The Sun and chair of the paper’s bargaining unit in the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, said salaries are the group’s number one priority.
“We haven’t had an across the board raise since 2013, though our managers have gotten a couple since then. And we haven’t negotiated a new contract since 2007,” he said. “So it’s long past time that we raise these concerns and get a real raise.”
A spokesperson for Baltimore Sun Media Group did not immediately return a request for comment on today’s display.
The guild made a similar push for a salary bump in October 2016 after company-wide raises were extended by parent company Tribune Publishing, then known as tronc, but only to non-union workers.