As Hearst Magazines staffers are still awaiting a date to vote for their union, another media organization is already on its second contract.
Following months of negotiations, news and opinion site The Huffington Post’s 125-strong union, which formed in 2016, just ratified its second collective bargaining agreement with the Writers Guild of America, East. This is the same body through which hundreds of Hearst employees are attempting to unionize.
“The Guild reached an agreement with HuffPost that makes critical gains in compensation, inclusion, successorship and the use of contractors,” Lowell Peterson, executive director of the WGAE, said Monday. “A union contract is instrumental in protecting journalists and journalism during unpredictable times. We encourage everyone who crafts content for a living to join together in a union.”
The HuffPost Union’s new three-year agreement includes the majority of workers receiving a 3 percent minimum pay increase in 2020, 3 percent in 2021, and 3.25 percent in 2022. The exception being that salaries for senior reporters and editors will increase by 4.5 percent in the first year and fall in line with the rest of the company.
The contract also has a commitment to provide legal representation to employees and former employees who get sued over their
Following months of negotiations, news and opinion site The Huffington Post’s 125-strong union, which formed in 2016, just ratified its second collective bargaining agreement with the Writers Guild of America, East. This is the same body through which hundreds of Hearst employees are attempting to unionize.
“The Guild reached an agreement with HuffPost that makes critical gains in compensation, inclusion, successorship and the use of contractors,” Lowell Peterson, executive director of the WGAE, said Monday. “A union contract is instrumental in protecting journalists and journalism during unpredictable times. We encourage everyone who crafts content for a living to join together in a union.”
The HuffPost Union’s new three-year agreement includes the majority of workers receiving a 3 percent minimum pay increase in 2020, 3 percent in 2021, and 3.25 percent in 2022. The exception being that salaries for senior reporters and editors will increase by 4.5 percent in the first year and fall in line with the rest of the company.
The contract also has a commitment to provide legal representation to employees and former employees who get sued over their
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