![]() ![]() Striking on Black Friday was discussed among the members of the bargaining committee, and it’s a pressure point that we could apply. With the increased traffic and people making a lot of purchases around those two events, it’s a significant revenue generator for the site. Obviously, people are searching for great deals, especially around that time. Why are you striking on Black Friday? Who came up with this idea to have a targeted strike should management not budge?īlack Friday-or at this point, Cyber Week in general-and Prime Day are very, very big for Wirecutter. We have got tentative agreements on quite a few things, but as typically happens, stuff like wages and benefits wind up being the last thing to be decided and management simply has not made us an offer on guaranteed wages that we find acceptable. We have been bargaining regularly, for the last two years, essentially all the way through the pandemic in 2020, and here we are in 2021 and we’re still at the bargaining table. We began bargaining in November or December of that year-I think we only had one session before the winter holidays. Not so much the two higher tiers.Ĭould you give a brief synopsis of how you got to today’s strike? How long have you been trying to reach a deal with management? And we think we’ve got some good movement there and we’re feeling okay about that. The good thing is that we made it clear to management that our main priority was getting our lowest-paid workers a significant one-time wage increase. But we wanted significant one-time wage increases-just increase everybody’s salary to a minimum within four different tiers that we’ve laid out. ![]() ![]() ![]() That would just be an absolute non-starter. We did not go into this expecting to raise ourselves up to the Times level. And that means we have lots of people who make much less than that. I believe that the mean newsroom wage is like $119,000 or something like that, and we’re down in the seventies. And so, their wages are necessarily much higher than ours. Could you talk a bit about the difference between New York Times benefits and pay and Wirecutter’s benefits and pay? Wirecutter is owned by The New York Times. ![]()
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