Suburban CT Guild

Come join our mascot/ Guild pup Brie Saturday at 5 pm at Chicago Tribune Freedom Center at our rally

If you want to support @SCNGguild and our members, we have launched a donation page to help raise funds in the event of a strike. Read more here: gofund.me/8b8f374e

🚨🚨🚨At the end of an all-day bargaining session yesterday, we told management they have a deadline of 12:01 am, Monday, Nov. 4, to bargain in good faith and present us with an acceptable proposal or we will begin our ULP strike.

@ChiNewsGuild members demand that @tribpub rescind these layoffs and restore Wendy Fox Weber and Nancy Swanson their jobs!

Across Illinois, there are nearly 90% fewer newspaper journalists working today than there were 20 years ago— and small towns and suburbs have seen the biggest declines. Alden has more readers than any newspaper company in Illinois, and those readers deserve better

Sadly, these short-sighted cuts seem to be part of the business model of TribPub owner Alden Global Capital— which has reduced staff at Tribune newspapers by half in the 3 years since taking over the company.

Wendy is a leader among the team that bargained a historic first contract with @tribpub that improved wages and benefits for Guild members. Bargaining took 6 years! It is not lost on us that one of our most vocal, effective activists was laid off just 2 months later

That work, which helps bind our increasingly fractious communities around local events and experiences, will fall to the already over-stretched staff that remains— if it still gets done at all. @tribpub readers, and workers, deserve better.

Nancy was the friendly voice on the end of the line when readers called with with tips, queries, complaints or praise for @PioneerPress. She loved how her work, from compiling community calendars, to the "Throwback Thursday" photo feature, helped knit together suburban towns

Wendy is a loyal employee who has worked for @TribPub's suburban Chicago papers— under a parade of different owners— for four decades. TribPub plans to drop arts and culture news in the suburbs— meaning the vibrant entertainment scene outside Chicago proper will lose coverage

Add 2 more to the list of 1000s of cuts that are hurting local news in Chicagoland. Monday, @GuildSuburban unit chair and longtime @tribpub entertainment editor Wendy Fox Weber was and @ThePioneerPress editorial asst. Nancy Swanson were told their jobs were being cut

We lost several colleagues during the fight to better jobs, and we would like to thank @MeganA_Jones, @SBakerSun1, @erin_hegarty, and Ted Slowik for their dedication and hard work.

We also kept the company from controlling our personal social media and exercising total control over our ability to have second jobs, which many journalists take because of low pay. When we fight, we win!

Our badass joint bargaining committee has brought home our first contract, which offers yearly raises and keeps a 401k match the company wanted very badly to take away. We bargained over the course of 5 years and every win was a fight.

More Latinos in Pilsen are college educated & make more money. ‘(The) gentrification that has occurred, has not been an exact displacement yet of Latinos, versus it has been a shift in the types of households of Latinos.’ Some say it is Gentefication—> chicagotribune.com/2024/06/03/a-n…

The NewsGuild-CWA stands with student journalists. We call on universities and law enforcement to respect press freedom. Full statement: newsguild.org/newsguild-cwa-…

Strike day! Come out and see us at our old office:

Two of our fearless SCT leaders on the picket line in front of Chicago Tribune’s Freedom Center. Show your support at the picket line, we love to hear honks and cheers 🪧🗣️ @TessKenny12 @tvjedi #ChicagoTribuneOnStrike

Here’s how you can show your solidarity: DO NOT click on stories at ChicagoTribune . com DO NOT engage with Trib social media accounts DO NOT open and engage with Chicago Tribune emails and news alerts Thursday. Respect our picket line by not crossing the “click it” line!

Members of the Suburban Chicago Tribune guild are on strike TODAY ✊🪧 We are fighting for our 401K, fair wages and better treatment from our hedge fund overlords Alden Global Capitol. To support the hard work of these journalists, don’t cross the (digital) picket!

Here’s how you can show your solidarity: DO NOT click on stories at ChicagoTribune.com DO NOT engage with Trib social media accounts DO NOT open and engage with Chicago Tribune emails and news alerts Thursday. Respect our picket line by not crossing the “click it” line!