Sure business sucks, hey let’s negotiate like its 1997
AP writers are withholding their bylines to protest management trying to save their company.
Hey AP writers… maybe now is not the time to use even softball tactics? Customers are dumping you. Your entire market is shrinking. And the economy is on hard times. But you insist on being the word processing version of the UAW:
"They’re making it clear that AP’s future success means respecting its workers, not imposing huge medical costs and regressing on industry-standard job security terms," Winton said.
Management had proposed a salary freeze next year and 2% raise after that. That seems generous considering what the organization faces. The union responded with 10% this year.
Let me translate… we know its tough times but… we don’t care.
If I were management I’d play hardball. They have to to survive.