“What do we want?” – “Fair contract!”
“When do we want it?” – “Now!”
Journalists at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram have gone on strike this week in response to what the newsroom’s union alleges is unfair labor practices by the paper’s parent company McClatchy, now owned by hedge-fund Chatham Asset Management.
As per Kaley Johnson, vice president of the Fort Worth NewsGuild, 21 of 23 union card holding members went on strike.
“What we and other McClatchy unionized papers have seen repeatedly is that McClatchy comes to the table and does not move at all,” Johnson said. “So we’ll submit a proposal and they’ll send us back their initial proposal, which sometimes is existing company policy, and then they’ll do that again and again and again.”
The strike will not end until a fair contract has been reached, Johnson added.
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