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President @newsguild . VP @CWAUnion . Past: @latimes data/graphics/coding journalist. Every worker should build a union. he/him ✊🏳️🌈
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There is nothing lower than a scab.
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My first job after high school was at
@Starbucks
(Store
#10657
) in Arkansas. Now I’m a union president and support Starbucks workers and
@SBWorkersUnited
. So the company PR machine has also blocked me. Unionize your workplace to have a voice! Management is clearly terrified. 😘
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Oooof. This is dark.
@SBWorkersUnited
are the workers at Starbucks. They are not a “third party” — they are human beings deserving of respect. And they quite literally run Starbucks.
BREAKING: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says that the company will never engage with
@SBWorkersUnited
.
For months, Starbucks has claimed it’s engaging in “good faith” bargaining with the union, as required by law.
Now Schultz is revealing that Starbucks has been lying.
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We ████ the whole Mueller report. What does it ████ like? More than a third of it is ████████.
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New York Times workers won a major contract last week:
- $65,000 salary floor
- Immediate raises of at least 10.6 percent for all members
- hybrid work
- ban on the use of NDAs in cases of workplace abuse or harassment
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A union isn’t a service you subscribe to.
A union is a decision to stand with your colleagues and fight to make your lives better.
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Don’t click!
@wirecutterunion
is on strike!
With an avalanche of early Black Friday promotions,
@wirecutter
separates the deals from the duds.
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I am thankful for all the brave strikers at the Post-Gazette here in Pittsburgh. I’m sooooo thankful that I have broken my record for pies made in 24 hours. I made 18 for our strikers. (More on the picket line tomorrow!) Happy Thanksgiving!!! ✊🥧
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“Unlimited” PTO was the final straw that kickstarted
@latguild
organizing. You can’t bank it. You don’t earn it. You can’t cash it out. And if your boss or future boss is against you taking the time, you don’t get time off.
It’s better to unionize and lock in real benefits.
Companies offering great pay + UNLIMITED PTO for all my 9-5 hotties who wanna travel often:
Netflix
Twitter
PayPal
Evernote
Oracle
LinkedIn
Kronos
Github
Roku
Asana
Chegg
GE (Corporate)
PointClickCare
Lyft
Shopify
Apex Systems
JellyVision
Dropbox
Baker Hughes
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Workers at the Washington Post are now on strike. Don’t click on the site. Don’t share any articles. Don’t speak to managers trying to fill the void. Respect the line and support the workers!
Three hours until Washington Post workers start our 24-hour unfair labor practice strike at midnight Dec. 7.
Don’t cross the picket line and don’t read
@washingtonpost
.
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Oh boy. Today I cleaned out my
@latimes
desk. It’s been a crazy journey for this kid from Arkansas. I absolutely loved my time here and I’m going to severely miss all of my colleagues. But I’m excited about the next journey: working for NewsGuild members everywhere.
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Tomorrow we hold power to account at the New York Times. Don’t use the app. Don’t click on the site. Read local news. Support public radio. Pull out a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak. Don’t touch the crossword. Support every worker fighting for a better world.
Today we were ready to work for as long as it took to reach a fair deal, but management walked away from the table with five hours to go. It’s official:
@NYTimesGuild
members are walking out for 24 hours on Thursday. We know what we’re worth.
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Come for the spinning windmills, stay for the analysis of how a salt deposit in Utah could be used as a battery for L.A.'s power grid
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Jasper wants you to know that any discussion of returning to the office is a mandatory subject of bargaining. And also, he doesn’t support it.
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Solidarity with
@washingtonian
journalists today who are withholding their labor over the CEO's public threat to their livelihoods. Media execs need to respect journalists. Enough is enough!
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Journalists have struck six newsrooms in the last seven days.
Ongoing: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jan. 19: LA Times
Jan. 23: Condé Nast (a dozen publications)
Jan. 24: San Antonio Report
Jan. 25: NY Daily News and Forbes
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“If this discussion could in any way lead to my being disciplined or terminated, or affect my personal working condition, I respectfully request that my union representative or steward be present at the meeting. Without representation, I choose not to answer any questions.”
Hold still I didn’t finish smelling that whole smell yet
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This is awesome! Just to be really clear to New York Times management and any manager: workers have a right to engage in concerted activity. Engaging in an effort to discuss and change editorial policies are protected activities because those are workplace issues.
hi. members of
@nyguild
are uniting to address critical issues affecting trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming workers in our newsrooms. read our statement and, if you’re in the guild, join us to build a better future:
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Today
@newsguild
members are on strike in New York, Texas and Pennsylvania. Join me in standing in solidarity with
@NYTimesGuild
@FortWorthGuild
@PGHGuild
@CWAUnion
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This weekend journalists have been attacked by police and protestors for simply doing their job: informing the world. We do not have freedom if we do not have a free press. If you attack the press, you attack everyone’s freedom.
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It’s 23 degrees and folks are on a picket line in Pittsburgh, trying to compel the Post-Gazette to provide affordable health insurance and follow federal law. For five months now. Think about how wild that is. The Blocks and everyone working for them are truly monsters.
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Every journalist deserves representation, due process and protection from unfair or unjust discipline.
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I stand (and sip!) with the
@SBWorkersUnited
baristas and call on
@Starbucks
to end their disgusting union busting.
#StarbucksWorkersUnited
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Feel seen
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We wanted to see just how big the
#ThomasFire
is compared to large cities. It's gigantic.
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Last month Mike Reed, CEO of
@Gannett
told me that “our newsrooms can’t get much thinner.”
Today he laid off a reporter who was nine months pregnant and a photographer who just lost his house in a tornado. And many, many others.
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The Post-Gazette owners are so mad! They're running full-page ads with Scabby the rat, openly violating a judge's order to follow federal law and NOW suing the mayor of Pittsburgh asking him to put strikers in chains. Wild, inappropriate behavior for a journalism institution.
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Today, support the hundreds of Gannett journalists striking across the country.
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BREAKING: TEGNA says it terminated its merger agreement with hedge fund Standard General.
It appears we just killed a multi-billion dollar attempt by a hedge fund to take over local news!
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Good morning! It's time to unionize your workplace if you haven't already. More than 2,100 workers from 42 workplaces have joined
@newsguild
so far this year!
#GuildStrong
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@nyguild
@CMGLaGuilde
@WBNG32035
@NewsGuildMN
@PhillyNewsGuild
@UPAGRA1
@NewsMediaGuild
@PacMediaGuild
@AlbanyGuild
The results are in: we’ve won 1,979 to 1,514. Thank you to everyone who supported us throughout this very long campaign and thanks to all the members who voted! We could not have done it without you!
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Today Gannett announced even more cuts (buyouts, unpaid leaves, 401k match cuts). Meanwhile execs continue to blow money on their own pay, anti-journalist lawyers, stock buybacks and debt.
The best way to fight back is to build your union.
Thank GOD for
@azrepublicguild
, as Gannett is announcing they are cutting all 401k’s matching, and requiring people to take 5 days off. They’re also offering unpaid leave, a salary reduction with time reduction, and voluntary severance. This is… awful.
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This is how you protect journalists and our free press. Amazing work
@newyorkerunion
The era of at-will employment at
@NewYorker
is over. We have reached an agreement with the company on
#JustCauseNoExceptions
, and we’re calling off our
@NewYorkerFest
picket. Thank you all for the support!
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Student journalists are doing amazing work right now holding power to account and reporting from the front lines of college campuses. Most of them are doing this work unpaid. Support them and lift up their work.
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The company’s lawyers show up late and come to the table empty-handed. They want to wear us down. We see you and we’re sticking together.
@latguild
holds massive walkout. Company: come to the table and stop stalling. We have work to do. ✊🦅
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🚨 If you care about labor and decent wages: Don't read the New York Times, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette or The Fort Worth Star-Telegram today! 🚨
Stand with the workers.
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Sam Zell is dead. His venture into the publishing world as chairman of the Tribune Company proved to be a resounding failure, a five-year descent into a maelstrom of rancor, downsizing, management scandals and bankruptcy.
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@Inky_Dan
@PittsburghPG
Takes a certain level of depravity to join a group of bosses who openly are at war with journalists. And then going on Twitter to celebrate yourself.
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I was just in Gannett's shareholder meeting and it was a complete farce. I personally submitted questions directly related to the agenda and yet Mike Reed said there were no questions. Others also submitted questions.
#GannettGreed
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Update: Starbucks customer service helper on chat suggests I create a new Twitter account to contact
@Starbucks
to ask them to unblock me.
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At the Capitol today fighting for workers and local news!
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STRIKE UPDATE: More than 1,000
@newsguild
members sent a letter to scabs at the Post-Gazette telling them they are "undermining the strike by crossing the picket line."
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100000% agree—journalists everywhere need to grab the wheel.
My opinion, as a current reporter: If you work for USA Today/Gannett, you should unionize your newsroom.
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Today is a great day to build a union!
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Hedge funds and private equity are destroying journalism, which is destroying our democracy.
Vice CEO Bruce Dixon announces that they’ll no longer publish anything on and employees who are affected (all of us??) will be notified early next week
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I love
@newsguild
members. Closing out the week and 1,597 workers have unionized with us since January. We have engaged in massive collective actions and won amazing agreements. Y'all are amazing!
#GuildStrong
😭✊
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A reminder: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a scab publication. Do not click on links. Do not share them. Label everyone working and crossing the picket line a SCAB.
Scab journalists cannot be trusted.
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This is disturbing rhetoric from the Israeli minister of defense. Journalists are not terrorists.
Journalists found to have known about the massacre, and still chose to stand as idle bystanders while children were slaughtered - are no different than terrorists and should be treated as such.
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New union swag pins just dropped.
@newsguild
members who complete our 6-part steward training can nab one!
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This is a BFD. New York just passed a journalism jobs tax credit.
Historic news! Journalism jobs in New York state will soon be supported by a first-of-its-kind tax credit.
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So we have now done this
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One year on strike.
Demands are affordable healthcare and for the company to follow federal law.
The company has refused.
US labor law isn’t broken. It was designed this way.
We must continue fighting and holding those responsible to account by all means necessary.
As Pittsburgh news workers prepare to rally today to mark being on strike for a year, our
@bobbatzjr
revisits what the unions still want to get back to work:
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As several random strangers have remarked to me in the last 24 hours: “Pittsburgh is a union town.”
Thank you
@steelworkers
for supporting the Post-Gazette strikers fighting for affordable health insurance and for the company to follow federal law.
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What
@Starbucks
is doing is outrageous. Their attacks on baristas have turned into an attack on the First Amendment.
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“Once you have been labeled as someone who will cross the picket line and screw over your fellow journalists, that sticks…the future of journalism is uniting with our coworkers.”
Thank you to this Sunday's guest on North Texas in Focus,
@KaleyAJohnson
—vice president of the
@FortWorthGuild
and one of the Star-Telegram reporters currently on strike.
She spoke to me after a picket this afternoon in front of the Star-Telegram office.
#NTXIF
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Yep! Journalists are standing up and fighting back!
Oh, and NY Daily News also walking out today. Today’s going to be a crazy news union day
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This is an absolute embarrassment for our country. My thoughts are with all the amazing journalists covering this moment. Stay safe, by god, you are our light.
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The
Largest
University
Press
In
The
Solar
System
Is
Now
UNION!
WE WON!!!!! Of the counted ballots, 80% of people voted YES!!!! We are a certified
#union
!
#OUPUSAGuild
#OUPisUnionStrong
#WeAreOUP
#UnionStrong
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My response.
.
@Gannett
issued a response to
@newsguild
and their misinformation campaign re: the ‘study’ of 14 out of our 250+ newsrooms. We address the facts that were not disclosed. Gannett is on a journey. We've been transparent about our goals.
#facts
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Oh my god,
@newsguild
members are BUSY.
-
@latguild
on strike
-
@condeunion
ready to strike
-
@CQRollCallGuild
@EvansNewsGuild
@HCNUnion
@SAReportUnion
unionizing
-
@p4kunion
condemns Conde layoff plan
-
@baltsunguild
working hard under new owner
- more!
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Heading to Minnesota and wearing an
@afa_cwa
shirt to support
@DeltaAFA
as they build their union! ✊
@PrideatWork
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This election—like all prior—shows how important a free press is to our democracy. Journalists were extremely cautious to review the results and report the facts and declare a winner when it was clear who truly won. We cannot be a free nation without a free press.
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BIG DEAL The White House shouted out striking
@newsguild
members
@InsiderUnion
@PGHGuild
@CWAUnion
and across Gannett
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One thing younger people like: unions. So maybe also stop union-busting?
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Reinvent yourself by not fighting your workers. Union-busting is a bad look, Howie.
We've embarked on a journey, alongside partners, to co-create the future of Starbucks. This includes a “reinvention” of the company, designed to improve the lives of partners, the experience of customers, and the health of our communities. (1/2)
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Look what Denmark's doing to SAVE news during this pandemic. News is a critical, essential service that is saving lives right now. We have a public health obligation to keep it running.
Danish parliament passes emergency relief package for independent news media, covering part of ad revenue lost from March till June, worth up to 180m DKK (~$26m)
By population, that'd be $1.5b in US, ~£250m in UK
This can be done. Question of priorities.
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When you cross a picket line you’re taking an action to hurt someone else. Remember that. Always stand with workers fighting to make the world better.
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The organizing never stops, y’all.
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Major news! Labor board seeking an injunction against the illegal behavior at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Scoop: The NLRB plans to seek an injunction in federal court against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette over labor law violations. Petition likely to be filed in coming days.
Workers at the newspaper have been on strike for 18 months.
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After weeks of delays and union-busting by
@Gannett
, journalists voted unanimously to form a union! Congratulations and welcome to
@newsguild
!!! ✊✊✊
BREAKING NEWS: The Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily News staffers have unanimously supported a union.
WE WON!!
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New York Times management is really going off the deep-end. Wild idea: listen to your employees and admit when you broke federal law
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It is illegal for Insider to try and lay off union members right now. Barbara, maybe talk to your lawyers.
SCOOP: Insider is laying off 10% of its team, according to a memo sent out this morning by president Barbara Peng.
Here’s the memo:
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Tomorrow
@newsguild
members will be on ULP strikes at four newsrooms: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Long Beach Post, Austin American-Statesman and now the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. ⚡️⚡️⚡️Stand with the strikers!
Update: our strike begins at 12:01 am Saturday and doesn’t end until
@Gannett
agrees to a contract that appropriately values its journalists.
Donations to our strike fund will help sustain our members while we fight for what we deserve.
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More than a third of the pages have at least one redacted word.
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Striking workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette need your help! Donate now to support the workers
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Has always been a top priority on my dating profiles. 🏳️🌈 💅 ✊
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I’m in DC standing in solidarity with
@Hometownlife
,
@detroitnews
and
@freep
journalists. ✊
It’s time to quit fighting journalists,
@Gannett
. Let’s get a deal done.
#FairContractFriday
@local34022
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