NYT Wants To Negotiate Separate Print, Digital Contracts

The New York Times is hoping to negotiate separate contracts for employees depending on which division of the newspaper they work for, according to a memo obtained by Jim Romenesko.

The union says that Times management has “inexplicably dropped a bomb” on the negotiation process after months of “incremental progress” toward one contract.

“By demanding to negotiate two separate contracts, management may have invalidated all the work previously done in subcommittee over nearly 17 months, including tentative agreements on job descriptions, the workweek, casual and temporary workers – in total, 21 contractual issues that had seemingly been settled,” the memo said.

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