APP-MCJ Guild 🌊

Representing editorial staff at @AsburyParkPress and @MyCentralJersey alongside @GannettUnion @nyguild @newsguild. Solidarity forever! ✊✊✊

[APP-MCJ Guild 🌊 @appmcjguild]

It’s official: We have a contract!

@appmcjguild members overwhelmingly approved our new contract with a 97% ratification vote and 92% turnout.

We’re also thrilled that our comrades and strike vote siblings @hvnewsguild also ratified their contract today.

[The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild]

On January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper & Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge.

He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus: https://t.co/IvM2R5c0Qi

[Charles Daye @CharlesDayeAPP]

We (the @appmcjguild ) had to fight to get language in our contract protecting journalism from AI slop - please sign the petition
#NewsNotSlop #journalismmatters #AI @newsguild

[penguild @penguild]

This year we’ve seen employers pile on the AI-generated slop in our workplaces. In many cases, these AI deployments undermine the editorial ethics and standards journalists at @newsguild strive to uphold. 1/

[NewsGuild of New York @nyguild]

Media companies are undermining public trust with unethical AI in newsrooms. We’re proud to join @newsguild in sounding the alarm! Join the #NewsNotSlop campaign and help us kick off a Week of Action on AI, Dec. 1–5. This fight is going to take all of us! https://t.co/IaY9jLM9dZ

[The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild]

Workers CAN regulate AI with strong contract language. Full stop.

Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @penguild

[NewsGuild of New York @nyguild]

@propublicaguild AI’s Impact on Editorial Standards and Ethics is today’s theme in our #newsnotslop campaign. Be sure to follow @penguild and be part of the conversation, starting at noon ET. @newsguild

[NewsGuild of New York @nyguild]

“AI is a tool that can support our work but there’s no AI function that can replace a human’s ability to fully consider journalism’s ethical implications or to approach an investigation with thoughtfulness and integrity.” Mark Olalde of @propublicaguild....

[NewsGuild of New York @nyguild]

NEWS, NOT SLOP: 🧵 All this week, our members are taking on AI and fighting for people-powered journalism. #newsnotslop. @newsguild...

[APP-MCJ Guild 🌊 @appmcjguild]

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.

[NewsGuild of New York @nyguild]

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....

[APP-MCJ Guild 🌊 @appmcjguild]

We hope this contract serves as inspiration for other Gannett workers to stop asking nicely and begin using their collective power to demand what they deserve.

Solidarity forever!

@nyguild @newsguild @GannettUnion

[APP-MCJ Guild 🌊 @appmcjguild]

It’s official: We have a contract!

@appmcjguild members overwhelmingly approved our new contract with a 97% ratification vote and 92% turnout.

We’re also thrilled that our comrades and strike vote siblings @hvnewsguild also ratified their contract today.

[APP-MCJ Guild 🌊 @appmcjguild]

This is a historic moment for our newsrooms. We’ve won a contract that not only gives many of our members life-changing raises and job security provisions, but raises the floor for what’s possible in a Gannett newsroom.

[NewsGuild of New York @nyguild]

Both @hvnewsguild and @appmcjguild have ratified their contracts! @hvnewsguild did so unanimously with 97% turnout and 97% of @appmcjguild members who voted, voted to approve. Congrats to them!

[Joe Strupp @JoeStrupp]

We have a contract. Go Guild of NY/NJ at Asbury Park Press, Home News Tribune and Journal News of Westchester N.Y.
https://t.co/qexmX14yNJ

[Mike Davis 🌊 @byMikeDavis]

We did it.

Last week, @appmcjguild members voted 94% in a strike vote. 24 hours later, we reached a handshake deal on a contract (and @hvnewsguild the day after).

Strikes work.

[Ilana Keller @IlanaKeller]

✊✊✊

[Jake Matson @JakeMatson]

Excited that I’ll be able to afford furniture now!

Many thanks to our union reps and leadership, as their work and effort predate my time with the APP and create a better future for the newspaper.

[NewsGuild of New York @nyguild]

WALKOUT AVERTED: Our @hvnewsguild and @appmcjguild have tentative agreements on their first contracts, which lift wages, provide job security and strengthen local news. More here......https://t.co/aMa1G7Igkl

[nancy cutler @nancyrockland]

WALKOUT AVERTED: NewsGuild of NY-represented Gannett journalists win tentative two-year contract deals! So proud of ⁦@hvnewsguild⁩ and ⁦@appmcjguild⁩ members for showing our power and fighting for our communities! #Solidarity! https://t.co/blRRGsy1iY

[APP-MCJ Guild 🌊 @appmcjguild]

We plan on ratifying our new contract (!) this week and celebrating this tremendous victory shortly thereafter.

Thank you to our union comrades, media/journalism colleagues and, most importantly, our readers for having our backs throughout this fight.

Solidarity forever!

[APP-MCJ Guild 🌊 @appmcjguild]

Breaking news: WE WON!!!!!!!!

We've reached a tentative agreement with Gannett on a 2-year deal with strong salary floors and delivers life-changing raises to many of our members.

We’re also thrilled for our @hvnewsguild comrades, who also reached a TA.
https://t.co/WBxIw9GcGm

[APP-MCJ Guild 🌊 @appmcjguild]

There are a lot of lessons we've learned in this 3.5-year fight, but here's the most important one:

Strikes work.

On 2/24 we announced a 95% strike authorization vote among us and @hvnewsguild membership.

We reached the framework of a deal 24 hours later, and HVNG on 2/26.