https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/washington-post-jeff-bezos_us_59df9245e4b00abf3646fff9?hgc
Under the Bezos ownership, we fear a fundamental transformation is under way at the Post one that is occurring in many other workplaces around the country, leading to economic insecurity for working people as though we are disposable or interchangeable elements in a machine, the union bargaining committee wrote in a memo sent to Post employees on Oct. 6.
...[M]anagement wants to end the papers long-standing practice of across-the-board percentage annual pay raises to create an unprecedented merit pay system and cut severance benefits. It also refuses to increase the 401(k) match from 1 percent.
The merit system would potentially freeze even inflation adjusted increases in pay for some employees for up to 30 months while others could get up to a 4 percent increase. Management has also proposed to cut severance pay and require any employee who accepts severance to waive their legal rights. When you do away with routine raises only the superstar reporters will wind up getting them. This would leave copy editors, video editors and others who are not the face of the paper on the losing end and increase inequality within the company.
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Under the Bezos ownership, we fear a fundamental transformation is under way at the Post one that is occurring in many other workplaces around the country, leading to economic insecurity for working people as though we are disposable or interchangeable elements in a machine, the union bargaining committee wrote in a memo sent to Post employees on Oct. 6.
...[M]anagement wants to end the papers long-standing practice of across-the-board percentage annual pay raises to create an unprecedented merit pay system and cut severance benefits. It also refuses to increase the 401(k) match from 1 percent.
The merit system would potentially freeze even inflation adjusted increases in pay for some employees for up to 30 months while others could get up to a 4 percent increase. Management has also proposed to cut severance pay and require any employee who accepts severance to waive their legal rights. When you do away with routine raises only the superstar reporters will wind up getting them. This would leave copy editors, video editors and others who are not the face of the paper on the losing end and increase inequality within the company.
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