Washington Post journalists plan 24-hour strike amid prolonged contract talks

Unionized journalists at The Washington Post said they would stage a 24-hour strike on December 7 to protest staff cuts and what they call management's failure to bargain in good faith in contract talks that have stretched on for 18 months, Report informs referring to Reuters.

The planned one-day walkout would mark the first general work stoppage at the Post since the bitter, 20-week pressmen's strike of 1975-76, when Katharine Graham was publisher, according to union officials.

The latest labor clash comes a little more than a month after William Lewis, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, was named chief executive and publisher of the Post as the venerable Washington daily newspaper was projecting a year-end loss of $100 million. Lewis is due to take charge on January 2, 2024.

The Post is one of many news outlets struggling to devise a sustainable business model in the decades since the internet upended the economics of journalism and digital advertising rates plummeted.