If an organizing idea behind a union is solidarity, then the reason for a potential strike by Financial Times employees represents a strong expression of that idea. The possibility of a strike in this case arrives not because of new contract negotiations, but because of the inequities that currently exist, specifically in the difference between what men and women are paid at the publication.
In an email to staff, FT editor and designer Steve Bird, who is head of the Financial Times’ union, said that FT’s almost 13 percent gender-pay gap is “the biggest shortfall in a decade.”
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