WaPO Guild Petitions Bezos For 'Fair' Wages

More than 400 Washington Post employees signed a petition to the publication’s owner and Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, demanding fair wages and an improvement to benefits.

According to AdWeek, The Post shared the petition and a video of the staffers talking about their grievances in a social media campaign using the hashtag #DearJeffBezos. Those who signed the petition, including editorial and support staff members, asked for “fairness” for each employee who “contributed to the company’s success,” according to the petition circulated by The Washington Post Guild.

The staff laid out a number of issues, including denying improvement to retirement benefits, offering just $10 per week in pay increases—which amount to 0.6 percent of the median salary—and requiring employees to waive their legal rights to severance payments that they called an “extreme” and “ominous” demand.

#DearJeffBezos, we workers of The Washington Post have been bargaining for a year and have little to show for it because The Post won’t meet us halfway on much of anything.

We love The Post. We know you do too. Our work has earned us more than what The Post is offering. pic.twitter.com/kPyju1ES6r

— PostGuild (@PostGuild) June 14, 2018

The staff laid out a number of issues, including denying improvement to retirement benefits, offering just $10 per week in pay increases—which amount to 0.6 percent of the median salary—and requiring employees to waive their legal rights to severance payments that they called an “extreme” and “ominous” demand.