cormack12
Gold Member
Source: https://gmgunion.com/
We are writers, reporters, artists, podcasters, social media specialists, videographers, and editors making the brands you love: Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, and The Root.
Since January 31, the Gizmodo Media Group Union (GMG Union) and G/O's Media's outside counsel have met five times. Every session, the company's outside counsel sidestepped and delayed, refusing to provide written counterproposals to the union's good-faith proposals. How can you bargain a contract when the people across the table won't even clearly state what they're advocating for?
Endangering Our Healthcare
Management insists on removing all guarantees that our current healthcare benefits and cost-sharing will continue. Management doesn't want to codify the widely accepted WPATH standards of care for our trans and gender-expansive colleagues.
Insisting on Return to Office
After producing years of journalism from our homes to great success, management refuses to add work-from-home flexibility into the contract…even though return-to-office plans were twice delayed due to COVID variant spikes.
Lowballing Salaries During Unprecedented Inflation
After a year of unprecedented inflation, management proposed raising the minimum salary tier for our lowest paid colleagues—and no one else. Management's insistence on offering new hires the minimum tier negatively affects our recruitment and talent retention.
Kicking Diversity Efforts Down the Road
GMG Union wants a robust diversity hiring initiative with the budget to back it up. Rather than codify this in our contract, management wants to punt further discussions about possible diversity efforts to our Diversity Committee.
Offering Inadequate Family Leave
Management's proposal limits parental leave. GMG Union wants enough time for a birthing parent to heal, or an adoptive or foster parent to acclimate their child to a new home.
Threatening Possible Forced Relocations
Many of our colleagues were remote workers before COVID-19 changed our lives, and management refuses to codify their remote positions. GMG Union insists on protection from forced relocations to the NYC office.
Reminder of what you might miss out on
We are writers, reporters, artists, podcasters, social media specialists, videographers, and editors making the brands you love: Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, and The Root.
Since January 31, the Gizmodo Media Group Union (GMG Union) and G/O's Media's outside counsel have met five times. Every session, the company's outside counsel sidestepped and delayed, refusing to provide written counterproposals to the union's good-faith proposals. How can you bargain a contract when the people across the table won't even clearly state what they're advocating for?
Endangering Our Healthcare
Management insists on removing all guarantees that our current healthcare benefits and cost-sharing will continue. Management doesn't want to codify the widely accepted WPATH standards of care for our trans and gender-expansive colleagues.
Insisting on Return to Office
After producing years of journalism from our homes to great success, management refuses to add work-from-home flexibility into the contract…even though return-to-office plans were twice delayed due to COVID variant spikes.
Lowballing Salaries During Unprecedented Inflation
After a year of unprecedented inflation, management proposed raising the minimum salary tier for our lowest paid colleagues—and no one else. Management's insistence on offering new hires the minimum tier negatively affects our recruitment and talent retention.
Kicking Diversity Efforts Down the Road
GMG Union wants a robust diversity hiring initiative with the budget to back it up. Rather than codify this in our contract, management wants to punt further discussions about possible diversity efforts to our Diversity Committee.
Offering Inadequate Family Leave
Management's proposal limits parental leave. GMG Union wants enough time for a birthing parent to heal, or an adoptive or foster parent to acclimate their child to a new home.
Threatening Possible Forced Relocations
Many of our colleagues were remote workers before COVID-19 changed our lives, and management refuses to codify their remote positions. GMG Union insists on protection from forced relocations to the NYC office.
Reminder of what you might miss out on
