The New Yorker Magazine Union Employees Stage Daylong Walkout

The New Yorker Magazine Union Employees Stage Daylong Walkout

High Jobless Claims Pose a Test for the Biden Administration: Live Business UpdatesThe New Yorker's fact checkers walk off the job for a day.Jan. 21, 2021, 9:00 a.m. ETJan. 21, 2021, 9:00 a.m. ETBy Katie RobertsonThe New Yorker Union decided on a walkout on Thursday after a recent round of negotiations with management failed.Credit...Jeenah Moon for The New York TimesThe New Yorker's union employees did not go to work on Thursday.The more than 100 employees represented by The New Yorker Union, which includes fact checkers, web producers and some other editorial employees, decided on the daylong walkout after recent rounds of negotiations with management failed, said Natalie Meade, the union chair.The issue is pay. Ms. Meade, who is a fact checker at the magazine, said the union wanted to raise the salary minimum to $65,000. In the recent negotiations, managers at The New Yorker did not hit that number, she said, instead offering wage increases that she called “insulting.”“They already know they're underpaying us,” Ms. Meade said.The union, which does not represent The New Yorker's staff writers, has been working toward a collective bargaining agreement since 2018. The walkout started at 6 a.m. on Thursday and was scheduled to last