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Attached: 4 images The New York Times Company made $2.4 billion in revenue in 2023, and our CEO gave herself a 36% raise, while members of our unit were given around 3% with persistent wage gaps for women and people of color. #ReadyToStrike #Union #Unions #Tech #Election #Election2024 #Labor #Strike #CollectiveBargaining #Contract #NewsGuild #CWA #Solidarity
  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    28 days ago

    Boss gets a dollar, I get…less then a penny??? Aw hell!! Screw pooping on company time! I’mma just bring a gun into work!

    …and the news has another days worth of content.

    (Just to be clear, I’m NOT threatening to bring a gun to work. I don’t own a gun. I’m just showing how these scenarios play out)

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      28 days ago

      You forgot to add “in Minecraft” there at the end, the police is on their way

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      I’m just showing how these scenarios play out

      But that’s not how office violence generally happens, it usually happens because someone is fired and gets really mad about it. You’re unlikely to bring a gun to work if you’re merely unemployed or underpaid.

  • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    84·
    28 days ago

    36% doesn’t tell a clean story. How many dozens of percentage raise would workers get if that CEO’s raise was evenly distributed?

    • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      28 days ago

      Here’s what I came up with.

      Using Meredith Kopit-Levien’s annual pay from the New York Times, at $10.2 million (as stated in the graph.) Then pluging in the 36% raise she was ‘given’ in 2024(?) and divide by 600 Times Tech Guild members. The following is what I got.

      Base salary: $10.2 million 36% of $10.2 million = $10.2 million × 0.36 = $3.672 million $3.672 million ÷ 600 = $6,120 per person

      Current average salary: $158,000 (using what was stated in the graph) Potential raise: $6,120 Percentage increase = ($6,120 ÷ $158,000) × 100 = 3.87%

      So if the value of the 36% raise ($3.672 million) were distributed equally among the 600 guild members: Each member would receive a $6,120 raise This would represent approximately a 3.87% increase to their current average salary.