by Caroline Grannan, PMWG Chronicle unit chair The Pacific Media Workers Guild has been advocating forcefully for the San Francisco Chronicle to remedy pay inequity that disadvantages employees of color and women. In June 2016, PMWG members in the Chronicle newsroom launched a study of salary data to assess pay equity at the Chronicle. The […]
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Hearst relents at 11th hour, settling NLRB complaint with Guild
After a year of stonewalling, Hearst Corp. finally agreed at the outset of a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Tuesday to provide the Guild access to documents needed to investigate a suspected pattern of discriminatory pay practices skewed against women, people of color and older workers. The Chronicle is one of many newspapers where employees suspect inequities in compensation.
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Chronicle Pay Equity committee details
The Guild’s Chronicle unit has formed a Pay Equity Committee and has begun work to analyze members’ compensation and discuss solutions with management.
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Chronicle unit pay equity update
The Guild has conducted an extensive study of the wages of 112 Chronicle newsroom members, and discovered pay disparities between men and women, whites and nonwhites, and older and younger employees.
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Guild committee raises pay equity at SF Chronicle
The Guild has begun a study of the wages of 112 Chronicle newsroom members. We have discovered pay disparities between men and women, whites and nonwhites, and older and younger employees. Recently, we shared our findings with the company and have proposed remedies. We await the company’s response.
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