Otis writes, “Instead of the fixed cost-of-living raises — usually between 3.5 and 4% annually, according to veteran reporter Steve Gorman — the company wants a system that gives managers discretion as to who gets a raise and how much it should be.
“Thomson Reuters declined to comment when contacted by the Daily News.
“But in internal documents obtained by The News, the company defended its ‘merit based’ pay system. In a June 13 email, the company said ‘the merit-based raise system enables us to reward people for exceptional performance. … It has worked well for six years, delivering millions of dollars in inflation-beating annual pay increases to most Guild employees.’
“The email also said the company had given the union an explanation of how its discretionary increases were determined and a history of how raises had been handed out in the past three years.”
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In environment of 1.5% inflation, a proposal for a 3.5 to 4% raise needs to be called something other than a cost of living increase.Economically quite illiterate for a bunch of biz journos, and won't work. Make a case that your productivity is up 4% in nominal dollars, which I bet you can do, and you have a better chance to get someplace.