Union Attacks Washington Post with Billboards
posted 4:21 pm Tue January 29, 2008 - Washington
The Washington Post wants to give up it's pension plan for employees but the employees are not giving it up without a fight.
They're above you, beside you and below you. Colorful advertisements on billboards decrying the so-called greed of The Washington Post.
"It's large enough that you sort of look up," said one passerby. The paper's largest production union, Communications Workers of America, with 400 members, has had no pay raises for the last five years along with no contract for the past four.
Since last April, no further negotiations have happened because the Post wants workers to give up a pension it claims, is underfunded.
Mark Pullium, President of the local chapter of CWA says, "That's the issue. It is our money and we didn't work our entire life for Donald Graham to just say I don't get involved in negotiations."
Many of the advertisements are targeted at the Post's CEO Donald Graham, whose salary is $400,000 a year, not including stock options, according to the paper.
Pullium says workers make $45,000 a year and want to keep a pension so valuable, it's worth foregoing a pay raise to fight for it. "It's not right. It's not fair," says Pullium.
In a statement to ABC 7, the Post says "The union has chosen a public relations campaign rather than negotiations at the bargaining table to address the pension issue, which has prevented mailroom employees from receiving wage increases and better retirement security."
"It's large enough that you sort of look up," said one passerby. The paper's largest production union, Communications Workers of America, with 400 members, has had no pay raises for the last five years along with no contract for the past four.
Since last April, no further negotiations have happened because the Post wants workers to give up a pension it claims, is underfunded.
Mark Pullium, President of the local chapter of CWA says, "That's the issue. It is our money and we didn't work our entire life for Donald Graham to just say I don't get involved in negotiations." Many of the advertisements are targeted at the Post's CEO Donald Graham, whose salary is $400,000 a year, not including stock options, according to the paper.
Pullium says workers make $45,000 a year and want to keep a pension so valuable, it's worth foregoing a pay raise to fight for it. "It's not right. It's not fair," says Pullium.
In a statement to ABC 7, the Post says "The union has chosen a public relations campaign rather than negotiations at the bargaining table to address the pension issue, which has prevented mailroom employees from receiving wage increases and better retirement security."
Latest Comment on Union Attacks Washington Post with Billboards
philly
10:24 am on 01/30/08
THE POST HAS ANOTHER UNION DISPUTE. BOY I THOUGHT THEY WERE A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER.
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