Workers At The Union Leader Deserve A Fair Contract

[Omaha Steve]

http://nhlabornews.com/2013/11/workers-at-the-union-leader-deserve-a-fair-contract/

By Matt Murray | November 17, 2013

Every worker deserves a voice in the workplace, even if your voice is your workplace. Over the last few years workers from the NH Union Leader have continued to be pushed down by their employer. Workers have fought through contract disputes that forced workers to lose pay and increase their cost for benefits.

Now the NH Union Leader want the Manchester Newspaper Guild (CWA-TNG) to accept even more cuts to their already plummeting pay.

“Members of the Guild, which represents employees in the accounting, advertising, circulation, data processing and news departments, have done more than their share of sacrificing to help the Union Leader Corp. through tough times, and are frustrated that company management has not shared equally in that sacrifice.” (WFT-UL.com)

The NH Union Leader does not seem to care about the workers or their families. In the video below you will hear from Matt McSorley, a copy editor at the NH Union Leader. Matt and his wife are raising four children, and all he wants is a fair contract. A contract that benefits the company, and the workers.

FULL story at link.

About Matt Murray
Matt Murray is the creator and an author on the NH Labor News. He is a union member and advocate for labor. He also works with other unions and members to help spread our message.

[2naSalit]

1. Interestingly

these people don't seem to appreciate the irony here. The Union Leader is probably the most conservative rag in the whole of New England... I guess nobody saw this coming.?

[Omaha Steve]

2. Change the name

Union Busters might sell better? At least it would be a little more truthful.

[2naSalit]

3. That's kind of what came to mind as well

the word Union doesn't seem to be the most appropriate part of the name anymore. It's an awful paper and gets far too much acclaim. When I lived in NH it was more widely seen as fish wrapping material or bird cage liner than it was regarded a "real" newspaper in the southern cities of the state. That was a long, long time ago but I recall the last front page I saw from it was in the early 70s and there was a photo (OMG!) of two gay guys dancing at a high school dance and the other sensational story (same edition) was about a streaker at some public event... the editors were so offended that they tried to inflict legal damage upon the people in the stories. Not many that I knew of took the paper seriously then.

Sad to hear about another newspaper with problems but in this case, the workers might do better with an employee owned situation and better editing staff.