No one should ever work eight years without a raise – especially when the people at the top of that company are pocketing millions and paying fat dividend checks to investors. Everyone knows that it’s the workers who make companies thrive and prosper and not just the few big shots at the top.
The hardworking men and women at the State Journal-Register have now gone eight years without raises. Eight years. And during that time, the people running GateHouse Media – the SJ-R’s corporate owner – have awarded themselves millions in salaries and yearly bonuses. And that’s just wrong.
For 184 years the State Journal-Register has been looking out for the people of central Illinois. Now it’s our turn. Call on GateHouse to reward its employees and mandate that a fair contract – one that includes raises – is negotiated at the State Journal-Register and soon. And that, until that occurs, to STOP awarding all those executive bonuses!