Unionize your newsroom today, journalism fam!

Today, we’re taking a lunch break together to show Gannett that we are serious about achieving pay equity and transparency in our newsroom. It’s time for Gannett to bargain in good faith: 🧵

We hate to break up the party, but one of our organizing committee members was just fired in an impromptu meeting less than an hour after we won our union. This is incredibly upsetting and we are doing everything we can to resolve this and ensure our colleague is okay.

in 193 pgs. of our #NexstarNation SPD, abortion is mentioned 2x: once, as covered by insurance only in cases of rape, incest/danger to mother and and the second as excluded from coverage in all other circumstances. just one of many reasons why its important to unionize the hill guild

THREAD: This week in bargaining we had to defend our veteran journalists as the company attempted to advance an unacceptable proposal for our contract…

When Nexstar (headquartered in Texas, btw - irony) took over, The Hill employees lost Juneteenth AND MLK Day as paid holidays. This isn't the end-all be-all of DEI, but for a company that claims to value that, it is notable. Actions louder than words etc.

cc the hill guild

LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights! We demand equal pay to combat economic insecurity among LGBTQIA+ families. We need paid sick days, paid leave, and the closing of the wage gap, among other critical worker rights to achieve equality. #LGBTQIAEqualPay #prideinyourpay

FACT CHECK: the news industry has seen some of the fastest, successful, and wide-ranging union organizing in the last 5 years, while also having some of the longest standing unions.

This is the kind of tortured reasoning that reporters are expected to challenge and question everyday

management is promising a daily email onslaught of 'facts' and weekly meetings with folks opposed to the idea of unionizing. love democracy at work.

management telling employees rn to ask for a 'written guarantee' that a union would win concessions (concessions from...management). the same management telling us a union can't guarantee a better workplace would be the roadblock stopping those concessions.