Sarasota Newspaper Guild

We are the Sarasota Guild, representing the newsroom staff at the @heraldtribune. Part of @cwa3108. 💪 Solidarity forever!

[NewsGuild of New York @nyguild]

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…

[Sarasota Newspaper Guild @SarasotaGuild]

Solidarity!

[New York Times Tech Guild @NYTGuildTech]

CEO Meredith Kopit Levien and CTO Jason Sobel would rather put @nytimes journalism at risk than pay the workers who make it accessible to the world. Their corporate decisions are bad for readers, bad for workers and bad for journalism. #standwithTech

[Sarasota Newspaper Guild @SarasotaGuild]

Don’t cross the digital picket line!

[New York Times Tech Guild @NYTGuildTech]

We are on ULP strike. We gave @nytimes management months of notice of our strike deadline, we made ourselves available around the clock, but the company has decided that our members aren’t worth enough to agree to a fair contract and stop committing unfair labor practices.

[Sarasota Newspaper Guild @SarasotaGuild]

Solidarity forever!

[Palm Beach News Guild 🌅 @PBNewsGuild]

🚨🚨WE RATIFIED OUR CONTRACT!!!! 🚨🚨

Members of the Palm Beach News Guild have voted to ratify our first contracts with Gannett!

We are so excited to announce the details and new protections offered by these agreements. Here’s a thread on what to know…

[Sarasota Newspaper Guild @SarasotaGuild]

What value to readers does a computer-generated highlight add? Our whole business is built on trust; can we trust an AI?

[Palm Beach News Guild 🌅 @PBNewsGuild]

Two weeks ago, our bargaining unit members were notified we are part of an #AI pilot program launched by @Gannett that auto-generates story highlights. When editors use the feature, the system adds the tagline below at the bottom of the story.

This week, we took a stand.

[Steve Howe @ROC_Howe]

Why is @rocnewsguild fighting for AI protection in our contract? Because AI is already being used to generate (garbage) content at Gannett properties. This isn’t a far-off future concern; this dystopian news landscape is already here.

[Newspaper Guild of Rochester @rocnewsguild]

We’ve been alluding to how @Gannett has changed settled language in our contract throughout negotiations. Today we’ve got an example to share, relating to AI.

At left is what the company proposed 4/11, and we accepted.

At right is what they snuck in without notice last week.

[Gary Craig @gcraig1]

.@RahChaChow and I began delivering this to @dandc advertisers over the weekend and will be approaching more in coming days.

[Newspaper Guild of Rochester @rocnewsguild]

Spread the word far and wide!

📣 📣 JOURNALISTS DESERVE A LIVING WAGE!

Enough time has been wasted. Let's get a fair deal done, @Gannett. We want a #faircontractnow!

[Gary Craig @gcraig1]

A few thoughts on our visiting reporters, photographers. I do feel for them because many are younger Gannett staffers who probably were given the choice of job loss or scabbing. (If any came enthusiastically, that's another story.) ... (1/5)

[Sarasota Newspaper Guild @SarasotaGuild]

When we unionized here in Sarasota in 2016 there were 38 of us. Now there are 19. Gannett, stop starving local news.

[Palm Beach News Guild 🌅 @PBNewsGuild]

1/ The Palm Beach Post and Daily News newsrooms have lost more than 45 employees since we unionized in 2020. Many of those folks have not been replaced.

[Reviewed Union 🌊 @ReviewedUnion]

We're sick of Gannett's bad faith bargaining, from stalling to regressive language to status quo wage proposals. We're not the only ones—journalists in Rochester are on strike now. We are tired of waiting, and are declaring our willingness to strike for a fair contract.

[Palm Beach News Guild 🌅 @PBNewsGuild]

A friendly reminder that Reed's pay is SEVENTY SIX TIMES that of the average worker at Gannett, who gets paid just $50,856 each year.

[Lily Altavena @lilyalta]

Also in the past year while our CEO’s salary shot up 14%: The Detroit Free Press has gone without a higher education reporter.

[Palm Beach News Guild 🌅 @PBNewsGuild]

While CEO Mike Reed got a raise last year, Gannett’s last salary offer to our newsroom staff at the bargaining table included a *lower pay scale* than we have now.

[Kati Kokal @katikokal]

Not-so-friendly reminder that @Gannett proposed a pay scale that starts at $40K for new employees and goes up to $50K... after TEN years of service to the company.

This is why we're fighting for better. We have to.

[Sarasota Newspaper Guild @SarasotaGuild]

When will Gannett pay its workers a living wage? They talk about caring for workers but their actions show that words are wind.

[Jon Schleuss @gaufre]

Gannett's CEO Mike Reed got a 14% raise last year while the median pay for employees dropped by 3.4%.

Corporate greed is killing America's newsrooms and destroying our democracy. https://t.co/1S2VuAkiez

[Sarasota Newspaper Guild @SarasotaGuild]

Will Gannett stay true to its word and reinvest in local journalism and local journalism jobs?

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

scoop: Gannett will stop using AP content in its publications on March 25, according to a memo from chief content officer Kristin Roberts. "This shift will give us the opportunity to redeploy more dollars...where we might have gaps."

[Sarasota Newspaper Guild @SarasotaGuild]

Congratulations! Solidarity!

[Janet Wilson @janetwilson66]

WE WON!!!! After 3 years of bargaining, walkouts, rallies and two strikes. @TDSNewsGuild has its first contract with @MyDesert @Gannett!! Thank u to our fearless bargaining team and all our supporters. You gave us the fiscal ability & gumption to get this done 💥👊🍾#UnionStrong