More than 700 Washington Post employees plan to walk off the job Thursday for a 24-hour strike. Post Guild, the union that represents most of the company's journalists, production specialists, and drivers expressed frustration over its ongoing contract negotiations with Post management in a letter to readers Tuesday: For 18 months, members of our union,
They’ve asked that people honor the picket line by not engaging with Washington Post content on Dec. 7:
Who owns the company is irrelevant in the fight for fair wages and working conditions.
There’s no need for a business owner to pay employees out of their own pockets, that’s not a sustainable business, regardless of whether it’s Bezos or just a garage owner with two employees. The Post, as a business runs profitably just fine on its own, with more than enough revenue to pay their employees fairly.
He could turn it into something like the Guardian, where it runs on an endowment. And it would be a trivial expense for him, with money he can’t actually spend on himself over the course of his life.
Who owns the company is irrelevant in the fight for fair wages and working conditions.
There’s no need for a business owner to pay employees out of their own pockets, that’s not a sustainable business, regardless of whether it’s Bezos or just a garage owner with two employees. The Post, as a business runs profitably just fine on its own, with more than enough revenue to pay their employees fairly.
He could turn it into something like the Guardian, where it runs on an endowment. And it would be a trivial expense for him, with money he can’t actually spend on himself over the course of his life.