“We look forward to a productive relationship with Wirecutter management in the future.Things have been rosy at The New York Times lately, especially from a financial perspective, but it wasn’t always that way. This contract is a testament to the collective power they’ve built and serves as an example of what can be accomplished when workers band together and demand their worth,” Susan DeCarava, NewsGuild of New York president, said. “Our members at Wirecutter love what they do, and now they will be fairly paid for their work. NewsGuild, the labor organization representing the Wirecutter union, as well as staffers at BuzzFeed and The Daily Beast, echoed the sentiment.
“This contract came to fruition because every single one of us held the line on what we deserve,” Kobos added. Media can be a tumultuous environment, but we love what we do, so we organize to make it better,” Sarah Kobos, a Wirecutter senior photo editor, told The Daily Beast. We have not only raised the bar for our members but for the industry as a whole. “I am so proud of what we as a union have accomplished. With contract battles behind them, the union believes the deal is the result of its members’ persistent solidarity. “All of the casual employees were scheduled to work during this period before the strike was announced,” the spokesperson wrote.) (A New York Times spokesperson at the time claimed to The Daily Beast that the use of scab labor was not being employed. The agreement comes on the heels of the union mounting a multi-day Thanksgiving holiday strike during the site’s most profitable time of year, leaving the paper’s higher-ups scrambling to enlist scab labor to cover for the Black Friday weekend shifts. NY Times Tries to Recruit Scabs to Cover for Wirecutter’s Black Friday Strike
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