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1/ Two weeks ago, more than 750 Washington Post employees walked off the job for 24 hours to demand @washingtonpost negotiate in good faith for a contract that keeps pace with inflation and our competition. Instead, they returned with peanuts. Read our update here:

Letter reads, in part: An update on contract negotiations from the Post Guild bargaining committee:

Dec. 19, 2023 — Two weeks ago, more than 750 of our Post Guild members walked off the job for 24 hours to declare they were worth more than The Washington Post was offering at the bargaining table. After 18 months of negotiations, they demanded the company come back to the table in good faith to bargain a fair deal.

The company did come back — a testament to the power of our members’ collective action. But as with all offers from The Post, the company’s concessions were both difficult to get and meager when they arrived. The Post made slight improvements to its pay proposal, but still did not come close to keeping pace with inflation or our competition. The company also refused to engage with some of our other key policy proposals and failed to promise no layoffs in the coming months. Continue reading letter at pastebin.com/fVtUm07T

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