NYT Staffers Walk Out: 'We're just looking for a fair contract'

This afternoon around 3:30, about 375 New York Times staffers walked out in an effort to protest management’s handling of contract negotiations. “We’re trying to save the essence of The New York Times,” said Metro columnist Michael Powell. Staffers wore stickers that read “Believe us.” and walked from the building’s 40th St. entrance, up Eighth Ave. to the entrance on 41st St.

The walk out was organized by the Newspaper Guild of New York ahead of further negotiations.

“It’s been almost two years of negotiating without any progress,” said union shop steward Bernard Delgado, “and meanwhile the newspaper is winning Pulitzers.”

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