Guild members at the Austin American-@Statesman are on ULP (unfair labor practice) strike through Monday, April 8. Here’s why. 🧵

First, our announcement and how you can help: x.com/AustinNewsGuil… 2/

Bad-faith bargaining: After three years of the company dragging its feet— refusing to accept common-sense provisions, offering benefits and language that would be worse than what many of us already have AND worse than what Gannett has agreed to in other recent contracts… 3/

The Austin NewsGuild sent a letter urging the company to get serious on March 19. We outlined 8 issues we could quickly resolve if the company would simply agree to provisions it had accepted in the Desert Sun NewsGuild or @AZRepublicGuild contracts. 4/