Chesapeake News Guild

Journalists at the Capital Gazette, Carroll County Times and Baltimore Sun Media. Organizing to protect local journalism. | @WBNG32035

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

We see you, Alden & Anstandig. We know our communities deserve a diverse newsroom. And we’re demanding you change. Stop fighting us on contract proposals that will build a fair and equitable workplace able to robustly cover our communities!

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

Alden and its attorney, Marshall Anstandig, don’t care about diversity. We’re working to bargain a contract that upholds these values, but they have fought hard to block and stall on many efforts we’ve made to make our newsroom better.

[Chicago Tribune Guild @CTGuild]

Diversity matters in newsrooms. But Alden Global Capital & its attorney, Marshall Anstandig, won’t make it a priority. We’re working to bargain a contract that fosters diversity, but they have fought hard to block and stall on many efforts we’ve made to make our newsroom better.

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

@MaryGraceKeller ✊Solidarity right back ‘atcha. Best of luck!

[Sentinel Guild 🍊 @OS_Guild]

Hurricane Ian has devastated so many in our community, including our @orlandosentinel colleague @afullerreporter, whose apartment was flooded.

Please donate if you can or share the GoFundMe to help Austin:
https://t.co/ogjIFXtF3W

Thank you 🙏

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

We also know the work in front of us is much deeper – and older – than pay studies or any one contract campaign. Setting our union’s path forward is serious and overdue work, and we’re glad to be in it.

Member sign-up: https://t.co/1BjqL1u7fn

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

We’re eager to get in the room with @NewsGuild siblings Wednesday for “Was that the Reckoning?: Addressing anti-Black Racism in the News Industry” w/ @nhannahjones.

There are no anti-racist hedge funds, but we CAN build an anti-racist union.

Sign-up: https://t.co/1BjqL1u7fn

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

We know well from our experience w/ @TribPub that ownership is constantly banking on media workers being unwilling and/or unable to fight discriminatory hiring and pay practices — and their effects on our communities and coverage.

https://t.co/NJ5I1PllZi

#DoBetterTribune

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

Earlier this month our pay equity study showed @TribPub’s widespread discriminatory pay and hiring practices, especially devaluing the labor of women and media workers of color. So you can be certain I’ll #WorktoRule today.

https://t.co/NJ5I1PCXnS

#DoBetterTribune

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

We have a long fight ahead of us beyond any contract. But the one we’re fighting for can meaningfully address these and compounding inequities.

That’s why we want to see you Wed. at 6/7p CT/ET for our joint town hall. Simply put, we need each other:

https://t.co/cp081oHt3p

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

Like all big bosses, @TribPub counts on us to accept varying levels of disrespect with the understanding that it’s always treating someone worse. That is incompatible with the work we believe in. So we refuse, and then some.

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

Because you deserve to be served by diverse newsrooms and media workers, we do take our fights public. We are insisting on changing the way we work for our neighbors. That means tearing up the business model. And we want you with us.

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

On #IWD – and all days – we want you to know @TribPub pays women $8,355 less than men, pays Black workers, Asian workers and Hispanic or Latino workers, respectively, $7,740, $7,510, and $4,530 less than white workers, and thinks that’s OK.

We don’t.

https://t.co/yFFJWH2BfV

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

Across the US, @TribPub engages in discriminatory pay and hiring.

Our pay equity study proves what we’ve seen for years. Now, under Alden Global Capital’s cuts the practice gets worse. It’s anti-democratic and anti-community.

We have better ideas.

https://t.co/Ow7o9o3x4x

[Danielle Ohl @DTOhl]

Idk what it says about our industry that an understaffed paper in dire financial need can't figure out what to do with $100,000. Not good things.

[Danielle Ohl @DTOhl]

@capgaznews They're all very good people who have been through a lot and deserve your support.

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@b3dubose
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@BWagner_CapGaz
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[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

THREE HUNDRED

[Danielle Ohl @DTOhl]

One last thing about
@capgaznews before I go back into my hole in Pennsylvania: I bookmarked this tweet from 2019, because I think it's important to remember in 2009, The Capital employed 300 people.

Today, fewer than 10 journalists work for The Capital. https://t.co/uN34UyVAxZ

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

Shot. Chaser.

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

Tribune must fill the empty seats in the newsroom and agree to a dignified contract. Shortchanging us means shortchanging your community. Until Tribune recognizes what it owes its workers, we will — increasingly — withhold our work.

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

Folks @TribPub still expect us to work for free. Our task load is unchanged while staffing dwindles. We’re spread thin to fatten our hedge fund owners’ payouts. But you can’t run a company w/o workers.

As we return to bargaining, we’re proving it — again — by Working to Rule!

[Chesapeake News Guild @ChesapeakeGuild]

We’re taking the breaks bosses think we should work through. We’re demanding overtime pay to do the work that needs to be done. We won’t walk away from our role in the community the way Tribune has.

When we Work to Rule the company has to reckon with the situation *it* created.