(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America (TNG-CWA)-represented Workers at The Washington Post conducted a 24-hour Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike over the company’s refusal to bargain in good faith.

After 18 months of bargaining with The Post, Guild Workers - including Reporters, Editors, Cartoonists, Visual Journalists, Advertising Salespeople and Circulation Drivers - walked out.

Despite a year and a half of efforts, Post management has refused to bargain in good faith for a fair contract that keeps up with inflation and The Post’s competition, TNG-CWA Representatives said.

During the same time period, because of the previous publisher’s poor business strategy, the company laid off nearly 40 people.

Then this Fall, newspaper management offered “voluntary” buyouts to another 240 Staffers.

Now The Post has threatened layoffs if they don’t get enough people to leave.

Democracy will die in darkness if there are fewer Post Employees making the critical journalism that keeps our communities informed and holds our public officials accountable, Union Officials said.

More than 700 Post Employees have pledged to walk off the job at midnight on Thursday (December 7th).

The Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike included Workers in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, New York and other cities across the country and around the globe.

The Strike was part of a public campaign the Union is also conducting to inform readers about what is at stake at The Washington Post.

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