I know Napoleon has already posted something about it, but it lost claim and visibility against Sugar being closed down for 15 days.
BA Herald, all 20-something people working there, are on their third day of strike. For the sake of accuracy, the company didn't offer a 3 percent raise. That would be too much of a joke in Argentina, especially with most Herald employees making less than USD1,000 a month. The offer was laid out in stages, with 3 percent on the first month and reaching some 10% after five months or so. Never mind inflation, that's only good to lengthen threads and bound to end in useless pep talk.
Here's how Sorrel put it:
Still no word from management. Our UPTBA union rep Nicolás says our meeting with the Ministry of Labour and employer mFin has changed its time tomorrow from 1pm to 3.30pm and that a Canal 7 TV crew are coming by Herald Towers today to conduct some interviews. Rest assured that they won’t be allowed into the building to film.
So what is this all about? Why are we, the Buenos Aires Herald editorial and administrative staff, striking? Why am I, a nice, middle-class, private-school educated, southerner from bloody England, striking? I’ve never done this before. Many members of the 21-strong Herald editorial team (yes, that’s how many of us, maximum, put out a daily newspaper and it’s a daily that only takes advantage of three Argentine bank holidays a year) have never done this before.
More here: www.sorrelmw.com/strike-three/
Oh, before I get to bite the dust after some of you go back to the Herald being written in some weird type of Klingon language vaguely related to English, please take you time to think about the last time you actually got that feeling when reading several pages in print. Because most of the expats I've met keep reading the paper online. All done by a different team, or should I say, people employed by quite a different company.
Strike or not, the paper is still at the news stands every day. Less editorial content, more ads, but it's still there. Continuity has been ensured by a handful of higher-rank editors whose paychecks would benefit a lot more from any sort of raise. Spot on, but no so spotless.
BA Herald, all 20-something people working there, are on their third day of strike. For the sake of accuracy, the company didn't offer a 3 percent raise. That would be too much of a joke in Argentina, especially with most Herald employees making less than USD1,000 a month. The offer was laid out in stages, with 3 percent on the first month and reaching some 10% after five months or so. Never mind inflation, that's only good to lengthen threads and bound to end in useless pep talk.
Here's how Sorrel put it:
Still no word from management. Our UPTBA union rep Nicolás says our meeting with the Ministry of Labour and employer mFin has changed its time tomorrow from 1pm to 3.30pm and that a Canal 7 TV crew are coming by Herald Towers today to conduct some interviews. Rest assured that they won’t be allowed into the building to film.
So what is this all about? Why are we, the Buenos Aires Herald editorial and administrative staff, striking? Why am I, a nice, middle-class, private-school educated, southerner from bloody England, striking? I’ve never done this before. Many members of the 21-strong Herald editorial team (yes, that’s how many of us, maximum, put out a daily newspaper and it’s a daily that only takes advantage of three Argentine bank holidays a year) have never done this before.
More here: www.sorrelmw.com/strike-three/
Oh, before I get to bite the dust after some of you go back to the Herald being written in some weird type of Klingon language vaguely related to English, please take you time to think about the last time you actually got that feeling when reading several pages in print. Because most of the expats I've met keep reading the paper online. All done by a different team, or should I say, people employed by quite a different company.
Strike or not, the paper is still at the news stands every day. Less editorial content, more ads, but it's still there. Continuity has been ensured by a handful of higher-rank editors whose paychecks would benefit a lot more from any sort of raise. Spot on, but no so spotless.
