Baltimore Sun union reps are back at the negotiating table today with management.
The chief goal is securing what staffers say is a long-overdue salary bump for roughly 100 employees who belong to the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, said investigative reporter and bargaining committee member Kevin Rector.
“Many union members have not seen any cost of living increase, any raises, so many members have essentially, given inflation, seen a 9 percent decrease in pay since 2013,” Rector said this morning before talks began.
That year marks the last time unionized employees received an across-the-board raise, he said. Parent company Tribune Publishing (then known as tronc) doled out pay bumps to non-unionized employees in 2016 but excluded guild members after negotiations fell apart.
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