Union pay study reveals low salaries, wage stagnation, and race and gender pay gaps at Southern California News Group, where journalists recently voted to authorize strike
Union pay study reveals low salaries, wage stagnation, and race and gender pay gaps at Southern California News Group, where journalists recently voted to authorize strike
SCNG Guild has proposed salary minimums or 9% raises, 401k matches, and changes to mileage and health contributions, but Guild leaders say management is offering only 4% raises or a one-time bonus.
It would have been cool if the study had some numbers for those of us who work as freelancers. Writing a story a week for pennies just to say we are published writers. How many ‘freelancers’ do the local papers rely on to have enough stories for their papers?
Agreed. You would have to ask them of course, but my assumption is that the Guild either focused on union members' pay as that's who the Guild is responsible to and negotiating on behalf of, or because those were the data available to them. But a full picture of pay at these papers would definitely need to account for freelancers, for sure.
It would have been cool if the study had some numbers for those of us who work as freelancers. Writing a story a week for pennies just to say we are published writers. How many ‘freelancers’ do the local papers rely on to have enough stories for their papers?
Agreed. You would have to ask them of course, but my assumption is that the Guild either focused on union members' pay as that's who the Guild is responsible to and negotiating on behalf of, or because those were the data available to them. But a full picture of pay at these papers would definitely need to account for freelancers, for sure.
A colleague of mine wrote this book, which may be of interest... https://www.amazon.com/Writers-Rights-Freelance-Journalism-Digital/dp/0773547967