If you’re in DC and have ended up in either the Metro Center or Farragut North Metro stations this week, you will have been inundated with ads about unfair treatment by the Washington Post of its production workers and utility mail handlers. These are the folks that bundle your newspaper every night. Due to stalled contract negotiations, these dudes haven’t had a pay raise in 5 years.
The Washington Post ran an article about the campaign yesterday, but I was excited to see that DCist picked up the story as well.
This labor dispute has been going on for some time between Post production workers and their corporate overlords, and thus far it hasn’t been successful in its goal of maintaining control of workers’ pensions. (Pensions – you know, those things that are rapidly becoming anachronisms in the American workplace.)
I put together the new look and feel for the website, mimicking the artwork for the Metro station ads, and so of course I’m rooting for the workers. If you read the Post and feel like taking a second to stick up for them too, I’m sure the workers would appreciate it.