Unionized reporters, editors, photographers and others at the Baltimore Sun have launched an awareness campaign to help them secure an evasive 2.5 percent pay raise.
An open letter published online today details the troubles facing the unionized newsroom staff. The letter, signed by 71 staffers, notes that all non-unionized employees at the paper received a 2.5 percent raise this past spring from recently (and strangely) renamed parent company tronc, Inc. When the unionized journalists attempted to negotiate for their own pay raise, tronc asked for “deep concessions,” the staffers write, including reduced salary standards for all and a piecemeal approach to handing out raises that they say would skip over advertising department and printing facility employees.
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