Midwest Digital Guild

You may have heard that several talented digital journalists in the USA Today Network lost their jobs. On the Midwest DOT, that accounted for MOST of our team, and on the same day the NLRB was to mail us ballots...

@SBNewsGuild journalists are fighting for better pay and working conditions! That means more newsroom staff and wages that allow workers to stay in their jobs and become part of our community! Fight with us! Tell @Gannett you want a better @SBTribune! actionnetwork.org/petitions/help…

Express support for striking Gannett journalists here. SIGN >> actionnetwork.org/petitions/help…

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Today, many IndyStar journalists will begin withholding our bylines from our work indefinitely until Gannett takes our demand for a fair contract with fair pay seriously. We are fed up with dismal progress at the bargaining table since our contract expired almost three years ago.

If you're covered by the National Labor Relations Act, you as a worker have the right to speak to a reporter about your wages, benefits and working conditions. The boss cannot stop you from exercising your Section 7 rights under the NLRA.

The Gannett walkout — expected to be the largest in the newspaper chain’s history — will be the just latest labor protest of this kind to hit American newsrooms in recent months. washingtonpost.com/media/2023/06/…

The community support we have received is INCREDIBLE. In just six hours, we raised the full amount we needed to ensure none of our guild members go without pay during our one-day strike. From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU.

I’m on strike with my @InsiderUnion colleagues and friends starting now until management gives us a fair contract. We are united and won’t settle for less than the fair wages and decreased healthcare costs we all deserve. Act quickly, @nichcarlson, @hblodget, @jessicaliebman.

It's official: THE INSIDER UNION IS ON STRIKE. Management failed to agree on a fair contract that settles our healthcare ULP and pays us what we're worth. Starting now, over 250 Insider employees are on indefinite strike. You want us back @thisisinsider? Settle the contract. ✊

This Monday, 100's of @Gannett workers are striking to demand shareholders vote no-confidence on Reed's tenure. Gannett workers & local communities deserve better than Mike Reed. It’s time to vote him out and end #GannettGreed. More in our release ➡️ nyguild.org/post/gannett-j…

It couldn’t be clearer: @Gannett CEO Mike Reed has failed. Reed has failed employees, failed shareholders, and failed local communities that are deprived of the news they need. By decimating local news, he’s threatening our very democracy.

While Gannett journalists have to swallow poverty wages, its executives have made bank. In 2022, CEO Mike Reed made **$3.4 million** – 66x the median salary of a Gannett worker. In 2021, Reed took home $7.74 million. dankennedy.net/2023/04/01/she…

Meanwhile, Gannett has been stalling on bargaining with workers across unionized newsrooms on salaries, adequate staffing, and diverse newsrooms. The company has failed to bargain in good faith and instead cashed out on union-busting law firms.

To pay off the massive debt Reed took on during Gannett’s merger with GateHouse Media in 2019, he has shuttered dozens of newsrooms and starved others of the resources they need to do their work. At some papers, local coverage has fallen by as much as **95%** in the past decade.

Reed has squeezed pay and benefits for journalists, forcing many to seek employment elsewhere. Many journalists at @Gannett now make so little that they need public assistance and private charity to make ends meet. youtube.com/watch?v=aF1typ…

Under CEO Mike Reed, @Gannett's finances have been grossly mismanaged and resources have been diverted away from newsrooms. Since Reed took the reins in 2019, Gannett's stock price has fallen **70%** - far more than its industry peers.

🚨Gannett journalists are WALKING OUT🚨 On June 5, the day of Gannett's annual meeting, 100's of journalists from Texas to NY are launching a wave of walkouts to send shareholders a message: @Gannett needs new leadership, starting from the top. It's time to end #GannettGreed.

🚨 Gannett journalists are WALKING OUT📷 On June 5, the day of Gannett's annual meeting, 100s of journalists from Texas to NY are launching a wave of walkouts to send shareholders a message: @Gannett needs new leadership, starting from the top. It's time to end #GannettGreed.

THE TIMES-UNION IS GOING ON STRIKE. We’re walking off the job after over four years of bargaining for fair wages, benefits and newsroom protections. It is clear that current Gannett management has no intention to bargain over these issues in good faith. gofund.me/f6976b1b

We need your help! Please sign our petition and tell Half Price Books you support your local booksellers unionizing! p2a.co/WG0ThMw