Work Visas and the Guild

We’ve heard from several employees who are here on work visas that they are nervous about participating in this process and are unclear what having a union might mean for them. We urge all employees, including those working on visas, to review the materials The Post has made available and educate themselves about what a union would mean in our department. All employees have the right to participate in, or decline to participate in union activities, without retaliation from either the Guild or The Post.

We have always been very proud of the efforts we have made to secure work visas and permanent residency for employees across the Post, whether they are in union-covered roles or not.  Our partners in HR have developed a thorough process that we employ to help employees secure appropriate work authorization and permanent residency status with, we believe, fewer requirements or restrictions than other employers.  We developed that process because it’s the right thing to do for our employees— not because of any union contract.

In the last round of bargaining with the Guild for the current Guild agreement, the Guild proposed to include new contractual requirements regarding The Post’s immigration process in the contract. Because The Post already had a process in place that works well for employees, which the Guild acknowledged, the Guild eventually withdrew its proposal as unnecessary in light of the Post’s clear record on this matter.