Management at the New York Times added new days off to the holiday calendar—including Juneteenth and Indigenous Peoples’ Day—but said that it would only extend the holidays to non-unionized employees.
. “We legally cannot offer a holiday calendar for NewsGuild employees that includes new holidays without NewsGuild agreement,” Rhoades Ha said. The union rejected a holiday proposal from management in “July 2021, long before the tech union election was scheduled,” she added, which would have extended the same paid time off benefits.
’ management’s proposal would have allowed the company to unilaterally change its paid time off policies without negotiating with the union, and did not even provide those 3 holidays, but just referenced a single flex day in 2021 that employees had the option to use for one of them or something else. That flex day is not listed on the 2022 calendar for union employees,” said