Don’t Cross the Wirecutter Picket Line

Wirecutter employee are asking us to resist the enticement of their own excellent deals this Black Friday weekend and boycott the land site . The Wirecutter unionannounced todaythat every extremity of its unit has agree to take the air out from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday in protest of the New York Times management’sallegedfoot - dragging on contract negotiations . The Times - have product inspection perpendicular ( antecedently a separate company acquired by the Times in 2016 ) founded a union in 2019 but still has n’t reached a collective bargaining correspondence .

Wirecutter , along with the Times Guild and Times Tech Guild ( all represented by the NewsGuild ) rallied last week outside the New York Times office to dissent alleged regretful - faith bargaining and unfair labour practices . In June 2021 , theNewsGuild filedan unfair labour practice charge against the New York Times , accusing it of orchestrating a “ coordinated sum - bust campaign , ” preventing roughly 650 non - nonionised tech workers from showing brotherhood financial support and questioning them about their posture .

The main sticking point in the Wirecutter talks are the union ’s desired minimal salary of $ 58,000 and a three - percent annual salary raise . Wirecutter union chair Nick Guy say Gizmodo over the phone that , following the mass meeting , the Times recently raised its one-year pay raise offer from .5 percentage to a modest 1 percent with pick for merit - based raises . He reported that , since the walking - out preparation were harbinger a little over two weeks ago , the union offer the Times management nine bargaining escort before Black Friday . All , Guy said , were declined .

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Wirecutter sum members ’ salaries decrease far short of those of their newsroom colleagues , Guy allege , claiming that the median Wirecutter sum salary is $ 43,000 less than that of Times Guild members ( i.e. , news reporters ) .

“ We have been evidence at the table , at least once , ‘ you do n’t do New York Times employment , ’ ” Guy said . “ It ’s something that ’s really stuck with us because we know that we do . We get it on that Wirecutter was purchased by the Times because it is New York Times - quality work . We know that our oeuvre appear sometimes in photographic print alongside that of our newsroom colleagues , and it seem every individual day on nytimes.com . ”

The union is n’t even asking to rival newsroom wage , Guy said . Only that their pay is “ more representative of the value that we fetch to the Times . ”

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In an email to Gizmodo , a New York Times spokesperson pen , “ We ’re actively working with the Wirecutter Union to give a collective bargaining arrangement that extend to reward our employees for their piece of work and contributions to The Times ’s achiever , and we look forward to uphold those negotiations at the bargaining table . ” They added that the Times management offered Wirecutter dates in December but did not deal pursue - up questions about Wirecutter ’s offers to bargain before Black Friday or the sizable salary disparity .

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Update 11/24 , 12:15pm EST : The New York Times spokesperson went on to say that direction declined bargaining dates so that Wirecutter could mould hard during peak gross sales week :

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“ We inform the Wirecutter bargaining commission months ago that we would be unable to meet for two weeks in November in purchase order to provide the Wirecutter management team and staff the power to focus on serving our reader during Cyber Week . That was the case last class , when both parties realise the need to take a break from bargaining during this period .

We offered date for straight off after Cyber Week , which the Union has just accepted . We see frontward to extend negotiations to attempt to reach overall agreement . ”

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