- "I will never understand the walkout mentality. If you don't like your working conditions and don't want to work within the system to change them, go someplace else. Last time I checked, no one was working at a GCI property as part of an indentured servitude arrangement."
- "In reference to the 3% wage increases in the U.K. -- sure, it's below inflation, but in my eight years with Gannett, I never received anything above my one 'outstanding year' raise: 5%. Frankly, I'm amazed they got 3%. Of course, 3% of not enough will always be not enough."
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Readers: Doubts on U.K. strike; 3% raise envy
Recent Gannett Blog reader comments on the five-day walkout that Newsquest newspaper workers began today in York, England, over a proposed 3% raise they say is below the inflation rate:
9 comments:
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My last raise at USA Today was a little over 4%. Indeed, that was the minimum increase I recall getting in almost every one of the 20 years I worked for Gannett.
ReplyDeleteUh, the system isn't designed in such a way that individuals can change it by working inside. They have zero power.
ReplyDelete"If you don't like your working conditions and don't want to work within the system to change them, go someplace else."
ReplyDeleteEasy to say. Much harder to do.
In a slumping economy and an especially slumping industry, employees of a newspaper - particularly newsroom employees - may have a very hard time finding a job easily or quickly.
4%
ReplyDelete3%
ReplyDelete2.6%, and was told it was the max allowable at the courier-post due to poor circ and ad revenue
ReplyDelete2% after good reviews, and told it was the new norm. Most got 1%, if anything.
ReplyDeleteMy editor: "Look, I know it's lousy, but 3 percent is as good as I've seen around here. Really, we've got some people who aren't even getting that."
ReplyDeleteMe: OK, thank you! (eye roll).
Look, 10 years into Gannett, in my late 30s, I was making right around $37-$38,000 a year. By the time I hit 40, I was making $40,000 (and that inlcuded a pay bump 'cause I went from one shitty GCI property to one that was allegedly a little higher in the pecking order.) I know for a fact that I won't make 50K at 50 as a reporter/columnist.
I just got 2.5 percent. Apparently that is the standard this year. I twice have gotten double-digit raises, but both were promotion-based. The biggest nonpromotion raise was 6.6 percent.
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