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The new contract, the union said, guarantees employees’ essential rights, secures raises across the board, and nearly doubles salary floors for the lowest-paid employees at The Washington Post. Under the tentative agreement, all union employees will receive an immediate $30 per week raise during the first payroll period of 2024. In recent months, the Post announced it planned to slash its workforce with 240 voluntary buyouts by the end of the year. Members of the union will hold a vote next week to determine whether they will ratify the tentative contract. In a statement Friday, The Washington Post confirmed it had reached a tentative agreement with the union.
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CNN —The Washington Post’s incoming chief executive and publisher will start the job with a mess on his hands. Workforce tensionsThe Washington Post Guild, the union that represents staffers, has been negotiating with executives on a new contract for a year and a half, but it has yet to reach an agreement. Wages and staff reductions have remained a major sticking point between the two sides, causing dismay among union members with the newspaper’s management. The Post’s management has so far rejected the union’s wage demand and has yet to directly confirm whether remaining staffers’ positions are safe from cuts, the union said. On Thursday, departing staffers were sent an email from management encouraging them to buy official merchandise emblazoned with the Post’s logo.
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Washington Post begins layoffs
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —The Washington Post on Tuesday became the latest media company to conduct layoffs, people familiar with the matter said, a move that publisher Fred Ryan had indicated last month the newspaper would take in early 2023. But The Post said at the time of Ryan’s announcement that it anticipated the layoffs being in the “single digit percentage” of its workforce. The Post also stressed the layoffs would ultimately not result in a “net reduction” of its workforce as it would invest in other areas. Ryan’s December announcement about future layoffs prompted fury inside the Post newsroom, nearly a dozen employees at The Post told CNN at the time. “The mood is really grim,” one staffer had told CNN.
A video shows Washington Post staffers shouting at the company's CEO at a town hall meeting. Gowen said the video is from a colleague, and she took it from the Washington Post Guild's chat. At the town hall, Ryan said job cuts will probably be in the "single-digit percentage." The Washington Post Guild did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment ahead of publication. "The Washington Post is evolving and transforming to put our business in the best position for future growth," Kathy Baird, chief communications officer at The Washington Post, said in a statement on Tuesday.
New York CNN —Staffers at The Washington Post are livid at publisher Fred Ryan. Video posted on Twitter by national reporter Annie Gowen showed Ryan walk off stage as staffers peppered him with questions. In fact, I haven’t spoken to a single person at The Post yet who has gone to bat for the publisher. Buzbee indicated to staffers on Wednesday that she had only learned about the layoff situation the night before. “The mood is really grim,” one staffer candidly told me.
New York CNN —The Washington Post will conduct targeted layoffs in the coming year as it reorients itself for the future and reinvests in other areas, publisher Fred Ryan told staffers in a contentious town hall Wednesday, people familiar with the matter told CNN. Ryan’s Wednesday town hall had been hotly anticipated in the newsroom after the decision to cut the Sunday magazine. “Democracy Dies in Darkness, right?”Ryan, however, walked off stage as he was peppered with questions, people familiar with the matter told CNN. “We are not going to turn the town hall into a grievance session,” Ryan said. “I’m sorry, thank you.”When one staffer asked for additional details about the impending layoffs, Ryan said, “We will have more information as we move forward.”
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