In an update to a story we’ve reported on previously, the largest newspaper in the Pacific Northwest had filed an unfair labor practice (or ULP) charge against its own workers.
Last month, the union newsroom workers at the Seattle Times filed a ULP with the National Labor Relations Board citing months of negotiations with the newspaper and still no wage proposal from the company as evidence of failure to bargain in good faith. Workers first gave their own wage proposal in March; well into June, the company was refusing to respond, claiming all other economic issues needed to be settled before they would start to discuss wages, per the Seattle Times Union. But the Seattle Times’ response to this charge was not to get serious in negotiations. Instead, the company filed their own ULP against the workers.
“We are ready and eager to discuss wages with the company — that’s why we filed our ULP in the first place,” posted the union on social media. “Instead of taking this opportunity to come to the table with a wage proposal, the company has chosen to drag its feet and further delay talks by filing a charge against us.”
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