Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝

Safeguarding the future of The Sacramento Bee. Defending the rights of its journalists. Represented by @PacMediaGuild and @CWAUnion.

[Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝 @SacBeeGuild]

We have good news.

Last month we told you about a McClatchy proposal to tie Sacramento Bee journalists’ pay to the number of clicks their stories get.

McClatchy has agreed to drop its proposal. 1/4

[Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝 @SacBeeGuild]

McClatchy wants you to invest in a Sacramento Bee subscription, but the company doesn’t want to invest in its reporters.

Under management’s latest offer, seven local journalists would still make salaries low enough to qualify them for low-income housing.

[Theresa Clift @tclift]

McClatchy has officially yanked healthcare benefits from striking Fort Worth Star-Telegram journalists, @KaleyAJohnson says. They won't get it back til Jan at the earliest. Shameful. One member is recovering from a stroke. Donate to their strike fund here:
https://t.co/5wtAL3yb89

[Fort Worth NewsGuild ☀️ @FortWorthGuild]

The journalists of the Fort Worth NewsGuild are on a ULP strike, effective immediately.

Members of the Guild decided to strike with an overwhelming majority of support — 91% of signed members — because of @mcclatchy’s continued refusal to bargain in good faith.

[Emily Brindley @em_brindley]

Yesterday, the @FortWorthGuild asked @mcclatchy to come to the bargaining table immediately.

@mcclatchy's response? They're busy the next 2 days.

Apparently, playing a twisted game is more important than ending the first-ever strike in your company.

[Joshua Connelly @joshuakconnelly]

It’s #GivingTuesday! Do your part to support local news by donating to the @FortWorthGuild strike fund as we fight against the corporate greed of @mcclatchy ✊

Show @tonywhunter, @KLR_Editor & @SteveCoffman1 that you want a fair contract for journalists!

https://t.co/FCD8RSMCT6

[Kaley Johnson ☀️ @KaleyAJohnson]

Fort Worth NewsGuild press release about our strike:
"Under existing working conditions, we cannot plan for a future in Fort Worth."
Want to show support?
— Donate to the strike fund at https://t.co/ZPx5DCP8tj
— Send a letter to management https://t.co/jl9nf1nQQd

[One Herald Guild 🏝 @OneHeraldGuild]

Last year, @mcclatchy announced that it would join the rest of the nation and make Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, a company-wide paid holiday.

But this news came with a caveat for @OneHeraldGuild members 🧵

[Idaho NewsGuild @IdahoNewsGuild]

The latest shameful decision by @mcclatchy. It is withholding Juneteenth as a holiday from employees in a cheap bargaining tactic.

Instead of honoring the end of slavery, it is punishing its own employees for exercising their rights.

We stand in solidarity with our colleagues.

[Austin NewsGuild @AustinNewsGuild]

We stand in solidarity with @FortWorthGuild, @OneHeraldGuild and @KCNewsGuild who were excluded from the Juneteenth holiday by @mcclatchy

[Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝 @SacBeeGuild]

I’m sorry, what???

[Idaho NewsGuild @IdahoNewsGuild]

When the company that refuses to pay fair wages is planning to speak at a conference about how recruiting is a “nightmare right now” because journalists are asking for better pay 👀 @mcclatchy @robyntomlin @NewsLeaders @tonywhunter @KLR_Editor

[The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild]

Citing “crushing resistance,” to reporting on newsroom diversity, more than 50 journalism groups have called on @PulitzerPrizes to make participation in an annual diversity survey a condition of eligibility for awards.
https://t.co/6H7k9s7vOb

[Idaho NewsGuild @IdahoNewsGuild]

The @IdahoNewsGuild has been fighting for sustainable working conditions, but the people who make these decisions at @mcclatchy haven’t shown up to a single bargaining session. We are cordially inviting @tonywhunter and @KLR_Editor to our next session on April 21.

[Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝 @SacBeeGuild]

Solidarity from California!

Our McClatchy colleagues in Florida are standing up for local journalism today.

Read this thread. Pass it on.
https://t.co/M3mWa1ySoD

[One Herald Guild 🏝 @OneHeraldGuild]

BREAKING: We’re walking out.

After more than two years of bargaining with @McClatchy, unionized journalists from the @MiamiHerald, @elnuevonerald and @bradentonherald are refusing to work for 24 hours and demanding a fair contract.

[Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝 @SacBeeGuild]

This was deeply concerning last year when we faced a similar proposal. It's deeply concerning now.

We found a compromise that ensures readers continue to be served by quality local journalism.

We stand with @IdahoNewsGuild and urge @McClatchy to reconsider its position.

[Idaho NewsGuild @IdahoNewsGuild]

Journalism can't be reduced to clicks. Despite ours and our readers’ protests, the owner of the @IdahoStatesman is pushing mandatory pageview quotas for its journalists.

Join us in telling @McClatchy this is wrong by emailing management here: https://t.co/qMn5rZ1Z3M

[Idaho NewsGuild @IdahoNewsGuild]

🧵 Today, the journalists of the Idaho News Guild sent a letter to @mcclatchy management to formally protest the abrupt and inappropriate firing of editor Christina Lords.

[Matt M. McKnight @mattmillsphoto]

Solidarity with @WaNewsGuild, who deserves to be recognized by @mcclatchy in their entirety, not broken up in an effort to diminish their ability to collectively bargain in the future. ✊🏼

[Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝 @SacBeeGuild]

@FresnoBeeGuild

[Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝 @SacBeeGuild]

So glad our McClatchy union family is growing! @mcclatchy should voluntarily recognize the Washington State NewsGuild ASAP

[WA State NewsGuild @WaNewsGuild]

It's hard to know what to get people for the holidays so we made a list of what @mcclatchy should get us this year!

- Voluntary recognition
- Fair working conditions
- Voluntary recognition
- Real investments in local journalism
- Voluntary recognition

What's on your wish list?

[Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝 @SacBeeGuild]

The company heard us and made the right decision for our readers, our community and the journalists of The Sacramento Bee.

We hope they do the same for the rest of McClatchy’s publications. 4/4

[Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝 @SacBeeGuild]

We have good news.

Last month we told you about a McClatchy proposal to tie Sacramento Bee journalists’ pay to the number of clicks their stories get.

McClatchy has agreed to drop its proposal. 1/4

[Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝 @SacBeeGuild]

The agreement acknowledges the need to grow audiences while specifying that the pursuit of metrics shouldn’t crowd out other important work.

As we've said, not all journalism racks up big numbers online.

That doesn’t make it less valuable. 3/4