Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild
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Proudly advocating for workplace fairness and strong journalism in the Pacific Northwest. Unionize your newsroom.
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Joined August 2015
Do you work at a Carpenter Media News owned newspaper? Are you being asked to write 2-3 stories per day / 10-12 stories per week? We want to hear your stories about how these workloads impact you! Reach out to us at https://t.co/LFHy2aVupz. All messages are confidential.
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What a beautiful sight! These workers held the line for 3 years and now headed back into work knowing they won. Solidarity with @PGHGuild !
🚨‼️: This morning, Pittsburgh strikers are back at work! A large crowd gathered and they marched back in as the crowd sang Solidarity Forever. ✊
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The Starbucks union, which is now on strike, has organized 650 stores, but the company operates 10,000 stores in the US. So striking baristas are asking everyone to shun all Starbucks stores. https://t.co/NG1V8YCjfG
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🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN! The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.
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BREAKING: We did win! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @PittsburghPG to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for for 3+ years.
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🚨 STRIKE ALERT: Journalists at Science News are on strike and holding a 12-hour picket outside of the office! After 560 days of bargaining, the Science News Media Guild (@snmediaguild) is demanding a fair contract NOW!
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BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless $SBUX finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on Nov 13– the company's busiest day of the year.
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42 million people use SNAP benefits to afford the staggering price of groceries, including 900,000 Washingtonians. Without it, kids will go hungry. The GOP-controlled Congress needs to get back in session, fix the health care crisis, and fund the government.
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If Congress does not act to pass an equitable and just budget by Oct 31, food assistance will end for 750,000 lower income Oregonians. In Oregon, we care for each other, and thankfully, many Oregonians are already working together to protect each other.
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If Congress does not act to pass an equitable and just budget by Oct 31, food assistance will end for 750,000 lower income Oregonians. Here are resources for Oregonian community members to stay fed...
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Today the unionized workers at the Bend Bulletin took to the street outside their office to get loud and demand the big bad Carpenter Media Group come to the bargaining table with proposals that make their jobs better, not worse. CMG has been trying to remove benefits that they
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So proud to have ratified ANOTHER first contract this year!! Welcome to the official members @union_evergreen !!!
Big news from our small but mighty team: we have officially ratified our first union contract! 💚 @EvergreenAction fights for a just, thriving clean energy future alongside labor—and we’re proud to live those values ourselves. A strong labor movement starts at home!
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As we bargain for a new contract, one of our priorities is preventing restrictive quotas. THREAD 🧵
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If you work at a Carpenter Media paper in Washington, Oregon, Alaska or Hawaii and want to organize - please reach out through our website:
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A union for journalists and other media professionals
We already knew the folks at Carpenter Media Group (@CMGheros ) are destroying local news in WA or OR... and now Alaska. “What we do have a problem with is Carpenter Media management changing a story at the behest of an elected official,” they wrote. “We believe this destroys
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We already knew the folks at Carpenter Media Group (@CMGheros ) are destroying local news in WA or OR... and now Alaska. “What we do have a problem with is Carpenter Media management changing a story at the behest of an elected official,” they wrote. “We believe this destroys
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Two reporters and two editors from the Peninsula Clarion and Homer News cited actions by their parent company in altering an article after pushback by a state lawmaker in their resignations.
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Today in effects bargaining, Cascade PBS refused to move at all on their severance package they are offering the soon to be laid off newsroom staff. We are continue to be disappointed in how management is treating it's hardworking staff while making hundreds of thousands of
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On Monday, Sept. 22, Cascade PBS announced that it would be s… Isabella Breda needs your support for Support Cascade PBS journalists after online newsroom axed
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Good morning! We are back in effects bargaining this afternoon with @CascadePBSNews over the layoffs of our members with the @CascadePBSUnion The public has spoken loudly and we hope management is listening. 🧵
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