After more than 19 months of bargaining – which included valuable testimonies from Guild members fighting back against dangerous proposals, hundreds of employees signing petitions opposing the company’s initial wage offer and multiple collective actions – we are announcing a tentative deal on a three-year contract has been reached with
The bargaining committee wanted to catch everyone up fully on what happened yesterday and the background. AP approached us nearly two weeks ago to bargain off the record with the hopes of reaching a deal by Dec. 15. They claimed that they had some extra money they had to spend
Yesterday was a mentally exhausting and ultimately very disappointing day. The bargaining went past 11pm last night and while we did reach tentative agreements on most things, we did not reach an overall deal. There are a lot of good things in what was agreed to, and we will have