Correction, not to the substance of what R.T. wants to say, but to the
background:
Reporters and most editors at the Star Tribune are NOT salaried employees.
Unless R.T. had another job during his tenure there, which I don't remember,
he spent his years at the Tribune and then the Star Tribune as a reporter.
Reporters are paid a salary, true, but it's based on hourly wages. They get
overtime--in cash or in compensatory time--when they work more than 8 hours/
day or 40 hours/week (or on holidays). Salaried employees do not. They are
paid a salary that is based on an annual number (not an hourly number) and
they are expected to work whatever hours are required to do the job for that
salary, no overtime of any kind.
Linda Picone, Kingfield
Who spent seven years at the Star Tribune as an hourly employee and 14 as a
salaried employee and felt the difference.
>
> But for background, I worked worked as a salaried employee receiving
> compensatory time at the Star Tribune and in that case it worked very well.
> Everyone knew where they stood, but that had to do, in large part, with the
> fact that there was a healthy labor management relationship. This included
> monthly committees in which labor and management sat down to talk about
> ongoing workplace issues. (For a time I chaired this for the worker's
> team.) As someone representing workers, I could talk once a month directly
> to the publisher and a lot of the issues got ironed out before they reached
> a crisis situation. We also interviewed candidates for management posts and
> shared out thoughts with workers, and from time to time had special
> committees to jointly tackle larger issues.
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