NYT Reporters Demand Better Wages After Saving The Outlet From Going Under

Last week, Reporters at The New York Times staged a massive one-day walkout to demand better wages. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Last week, reporters at the New York Times staged a massive one day walkout to demand better wages. Everything I'm seeing about New York Times, they're fine financially. I don't know why they can't pay people better wages. I never wonder why they can't pay people better wages when they have the money to do it.

It, it's not like these, this is what's so gross. It's not like these, I think 1100 employees were wanting massive raises.

Mm-hmm.

They wanted a 5.25% increase.

Mm-hmm.

Over a four year period. 5.25% over four years, even if it was 5.25% per year, that's basically cost of living. It's not even cost of living at this point. And that's all they're saying is, could you pay us fairly?

Isn't this the woke progressive center of the world, the New York Times? Okay. And that's what they're literally, that's what they're asking for. And the company is making more money than they can spend. And the, the workers are doing a really good job. They, there was a time when New York Times was in really bad trouble.

Yeah.

So they said, hey, let's double down. Workers I want you to double down. I want you to reach way down and build this company back. And they did. And now they're asking for this and management at the New York Times says, well, you know, all that, that warm fuzzy feely stuff we do, those articles we do that are so warm and fuzzy and feely, we don't really mean that. When you're asking for it, say it again, the increase they're asking for.

5.25% over four years.

Four years. Yeah.

And see, also in, they're not just not giving them the wages, they're also saying, you know what, we may have to take away all of your benefits too.

Yeah.

And, and like you said, they're doing just fine now. They're advertising through the roof.

There is no, there's, there's no reason. If you're saying, okay, we had something awful happen, we lost 50% of our advertisers. But these workers, these very workers that when they had the big board meeting, they said, New York Times is in trouble. Okay. If you don't double down and reach way down, we're gonna be outta business. And then the woke touchy feely management that writes all the woke touchy feely articles all the time, tells them, no, we can't do this little bit. It's disgusting to me.

It is.

I swear.