加薪谈判40次未果，《纽约时报》记者爆发千人大罢工

据外媒报道，当地时间12月8日，美国《纽约时报》超过1000名工作人员，包括数百名记者和其他员工，举行了一场24小时罢工，这也是《纽约时报》时隔40多年来首次举行罢工。

More than 1,000 New York Times employees went on strike Thursday in the first industrial action of its kind at the newspaper in more than 40 years.

据法新社报道，《纽约时报》新闻编辑部的员工和纽约新闻工会的其他成员表示，自上一次合同在2021年3月到期后，他们已举行了大约40次谈判会议以协商加薪和远程工作问题，但双方仍持分歧。

根据代表此次罢工的工会纽约新闻协会的说法，该罢工的原因是《纽约时报》管理层拒绝按照通货膨胀率来提高员工工资。此外，公司福利及新冠疫情返工政策也是问题所在。

The NewsGuild of New York, a union representing the striking workers, had said that a key sticking point was the management's refusal to raise wages in line with surging inflation.

Health and retirement benefits as well as return-to-work policies following the coronavirus pandemic were also an issue.

《纽约时报》的播客制作人菲比·莱特（Phoebe Lett）在自己的推文上写道：“我不得不和近1200名同事站在一起，他们为了这个地方牺牲了一切，（我们）要求《纽约时报》展现对员工的尊重，这令人心碎。但我们站了出来。”

Phoebe Lett, a podcast producer at the media outlet, tweeted: "It is heartbreaking to have to stand with nearly 1,200 colleagues who sacrifice everything for the good of this place, hat in hand, asking @nytimes to show us they value us. But here we are."

另据今日美国报道，一名参与罢工的员工称：“他们（《纽约时报》管理层）一直在为最大的股东回购股票。但是给基层员工加薪却非常非常少，考虑到通货膨胀，甚至薪水不涨反降。”

They have been doing stock buybacks for their biggest shareholders. Meanwhile, they have offered very, very minimal pay increases that amount to pay cuts given inflation for the lower employees.

"It's disappointing that they’re taking such drastic action, given the clear commitment we’ve shown to negotiate our way to a contract that provides Times journalists with substantial pay increases, market-leading benefits, and flexible working conditions," Meredith Kopit Levien, president and chief executive of The Times, said in an email to the company Wednesday night.

《纽约时报》发言人丹妮尔·罗兹·哈在一份声明中表示，谈判并没有破裂，谈及罢工，她表示，“令人失望的是，他们在没有陷入僵局的情况下就采取了如此极端的行动”。

New York Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha told US media in a statement that negotiations had not broken down and "it is disappointing that they are taking such an extreme action when we are not at an impasse."

路透社报道称，此24小时罢工是《纽约时报》员工自上世纪80年代初以来举行的首次罢工。此外，美国多个企业目前也出现了劳工运动，亚马逊、星巴克、苹果等公司的员工正组织起来对抗他们所说的“不公平的劳工措施”。

编辑：胡雨濛

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