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Washington Post Workers Press for Equity, Fairness
CWA members from The Newspaper Guild and the Printing Sector joined forces to greet shareholders arriving for the annual meeting of the Washington Post Co. at the newspaper's headquarters in Washington.
Members of CWA Local 14201 - mailers, utility mailers and helpers - and the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, CWA Local 32035, representing newsroom and commercial workers, held an early morning rally, joined by community supporters.
Their message: the Washington Post has been a poor citizen of the community, and that hurts employees, readers, shareholders and the community that depends on the service employees provide.
In songs and chants, workers called for equal pay for equal work, an end to call center outsourcing and fairness for all employees. Speakers included CWA District 2 Vice President Pete Catucci and TNG-CWA Sec.-Treas. Bernie Lunzer, and representatives from the mailers and Guild employees at the Post.
The contract covering more than 1,200 newsroom and commercial employees expires in November. Guild representative Rick Ehrmann said the "No Worker Left Behind" theme "expresses the Guild's goal of achieving fairness for all Post employees - a fair increase, fair merit and incentive pay systems, an end to contracting out our jobs, and for equity, dignity and respect for all Post employees."
About 400 CWA-represented workers have been in a tough fight for a fair contract and against the Post's unfair treatment of about 120 utility mailers, who make about half as much as journeymen mailers for performing the same work, said Hunter Phillips of CWA's Printing Sector.
"Two years after our current contract expired, the Post's contract demands reflect the disrespect that management has for mailroom workers. It won't discuss equal pay for equal work, it won't consider real wage increases without workers trading off their retirement security, and it continues to raise health care costs paid by union workers at a higher rate than for non-union employees," he said.
Members of CWA Local 14201 - mailers, utility mailers and helpers - and the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, CWA Local 32035, representing newsroom and commercial workers, held an early morning rally, joined by community supporters.
Their message: the Washington Post has been a poor citizen of the community, and that hurts employees, readers, shareholders and the community that depends on the service employees provide.
In songs and chants, workers called for equal pay for equal work, an end to call center outsourcing and fairness for all employees. Speakers included CWA District 2 Vice President Pete Catucci and TNG-CWA Sec.-Treas. Bernie Lunzer, and representatives from the mailers and Guild employees at the Post.
The contract covering more than 1,200 newsroom and commercial employees expires in November. Guild representative Rick Ehrmann said the "No Worker Left Behind" theme "expresses the Guild's goal of achieving fairness for all Post employees - a fair increase, fair merit and incentive pay systems, an end to contracting out our jobs, and for equity, dignity and respect for all Post employees."
About 400 CWA-represented workers have been in a tough fight for a fair contract and against the Post's unfair treatment of about 120 utility mailers, who make about half as much as journeymen mailers for performing the same work, said Hunter Phillips of CWA's Printing Sector.
"Two years after our current contract expired, the Post's contract demands reflect the disrespect that management has for mailroom workers. It won't discuss equal pay for equal work, it won't consider real wage increases without workers trading off their retirement security, and it continues to raise health care costs paid by union workers at a higher rate than for non-union employees," he said.