It should tell you something that 95% of the union voted to strike. I found more information from them here: https://www.nyguild.org/post/new-york-times-tech-guild-votes... I wonder how other news outlets will cover this, if at all. They’re probably afraid others will get the same idea.
It tells me most of the talent left.
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Because the reality is that when you adjust for type of job, experience, and hours worked the wage disparity effectively disappears: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/08/01/are-wome...
That is from 2017 and focuses on 3 European countries only.
> In the United States, for example, the non-adjusted average woman's annual salary is 79–83% of the average man's salary, compared to 95–99% for the adjusted average salary
It's the same in essentially every western developed country. Discrimination on the basis of gender is no longer accepted, the disparities that persist are due to different choices.
If women were paid less for the same work companies would benefit from staffing mostly women.
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It seems that subtlety doesn't cut through the 'akshually' layer. The point I was trying to make is that regardless of what the company files publicly, employees will have more relevant information than an external observer such as us. There may be internal memos announcing upcoming changes in working conditions or benefits, chatter about SLT, chatter about acquisitions, layoffs, etc... So, the argument that we can b…
Ok, I still doubt they have a better idea about that. Plenty of outsiders know more about my workplace than I do simply because they bothered researching, and the internal comms are more a distraction than actually juicy.
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The IT department isn't doing comparable work, so of course that wouldn't work.
Clearly warehouse workers don't do the exact same work either though. Otherwise it would be the same job and the market rate would be the same.