Post Newsroom Irate Over Exec Pay Hike

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Outraged Washington Post newsies are demanding raises after Post publisher Katharine Weymouth (right) collected a hefty 16.4 percent pay increase despite the company’s recent 66 percent plunge in profits. “It’s amazing how [Weymouth] can accept a 16.4 percent salary increase plus over a million dollars in bonuses in April while most Guild-covered Post workers haven’t received an increase since 2008," says Rick Ehrmann of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild/CWA 32035, noting that the workers’ contract is set to expire on June 7. "When the Guild asked for the same 16.4%, she sent the Post’s attorney to the bargaining table to cry poverty.”  – includes reporting from Amy Tennery’s May 9 article on Mogulite.com