The Sun Sentinel Guild is working toward our first contract with our employer, Alden Global Capital.
We are negotiating for a fair contract so that we can keep covering our community well!
Please consider signing our petition:
https://t.co/66mA1PWdyS
ProPublica’s reporters have revealed some of the biggest news stories in modern times that powerful people tried to keep hidden.
Their workers deserve a fair deal for it. Signing their petition to their bosses demanding basic job protections https://t.co/Wyx2FRucB1
Happy Labor Day! ✊📰
Across the country, NewsGuild members are winning strong contracts, fighting layoffs, and building power on the job.
Solidarity today and every day. 💪
Former officials with local or state chapters of the American Defamation League and ACLU sent this letter to The Palm Beach Post about firing its only Jewish editor over a Gaza war political cartoon, but the letter was not published. Well, read it here: https://t.co/jze3rTBUip
Gannett fired The Palm Beach Post’s only Jewish editor, Tony Doris, last month over a Gaza war political cartoon. He co-founded our union.
Why’d the company do this? “They’re afraid of their shadow,” he said.
More here: https://t.co/8fSRqdmUIb
And here: https://t.co/lXcRv4dM5e
SHOW OF SUPPORT: Our @therecordguild’s fight for a fair contract received the full support of the entire New Jersey House Democratic delegation today. They sent a letter to @Gannett CEO Mike Reed…
Solidarity forever with The Record Guild.
Nearly a quarter of their members earn less than $40,000 annually — a poverty-level wage anywhere in New Jersey, let alone North Jersey.
Gannett management should be ashamed that it’s come to this.
READY TO WALK: @therecordguild has voted to authorize a walkout, fed up with @Gannett's refusal agree to a fair contract with living wages, despite three years of bargaining. More here....
Gannett fired The Palm Beach Post’s only Jewish editor, Tony Doris, last month over a Gaza war political cartoon. He co-founded our union.
Why’d the company do this? “They’re afraid of their shadow,” he said.
More here: https://t.co/8fSRqdmUIb
And here: https://t.co/lXcRv4dM5e
READY TO WALK: Our members at six @Gannett newspapers in New York and New Jersey have had enough and voted by 95% to walk off the job. They are fed up with @Gannett disregard for labor law and refusal to agree to a fair contract after three long years of bargaining.
BARGAIN NOW: (Thread 1 of 3) A group of 17 NY State Assembly members including @sarahana signed a letter to @Gannett CEO Mike Reed, calling on Gannett to agree to fair contracts for our @hvnewsguild and @guild129 members. .....
BARGAIN NOW: Our @Gannett members in New Jersey received major support from @RepSherrill, who wrote to CEO Mike Reed and the Gannett C-suite demanding the company settle contracts that provide livable wages and regular raises as soon as possible. Read here for more…
Our members haven't had work since last year, and put together a GoFundMe to support one another. Meanwhile, Gannett has been continuing to update OUR work. We'd love to know who's doing that. (1/?) https://t.co/cvCU51HY5u
CALL TO ACTION: Since last Friday, when management at the Washington Post ended presidential endorsements, readers have sent thousands of letters condemning the decision.
Help us reach our 10,000 letter goal to ensure management hears us loud and clear:
https://t.co/khe8OmHhqF
We are still in mediation. Here’s what’s at stake: wages, job security, AI replacing our work, benefits, seniority protections etc. Here is a thread 🧵 of of recent stories that our journalists have produced.
Today, we — the hosts, reporters, producers, digital content creators and others — of WLRN are proud to announce our intent to unionize with @SAGAFTRA, becoming the first public radio station in Florida to do so. #WeMakeWLRN
Today we shared that the newsroom staff of the Anchorage Daily News is working to unionize. If you would like to support us and our organizing effort, we invite you to sign our action network petition here: https://t.co/Dpa9rLidRT. #ADNunited
We are celebrating Labor Day by announcing that a supermajority of our over-600 person union signed a pledge of support for a strike. We have scheduled a strike authorization vote 🗳️ 🪧
Some T-U Guild members spent their lunch hour supporting @CWAUnion members in their strike against @ATT's unfair labor practices today on Hendricks Avenue in Jacksonville. ✊ We are sending solidarity to the 17,000 workers on strike and wishing for a fair contract soon!