100+ journalists at Hearst CT, advocating for each other and ready to bargain our first contract alongside @newsguild & @nyguild
Norwalk, CT
Joined August 2024
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In a bargaining session with @hearst_np last week, we proposed a new wage scale that would increase our pay and establish a higher wage floor with additional compensation for years of industry experience.
Our proposal also includes a guaranteed annual wage increase.
We’re inspired by the first contracts @newsguild members around the country have won that guarantee raises and fair, transparent pay.
We’re doing this alongside our fellow bargaining @hearst_np @newsguild members at @AustinNewsGuild, @DallasNewsGuild, @AlbanyGuild and with the solidarity of our @SFCGuild and @HearstUnion friends.
Let's go!
Connecticut News Guild retweeted
Solidarity from our union to yours! We stand with you in calling for a fair contract now!
Unionized Hearst Newspapers staff in Austin, Albany, Connecticut and Dallas are on the same page:
We’re ready to fight for fair contracts and respect from our employer.
We’re demanding that Hearst bargain in good faith with @AustinNewsGuild, @AlbanyGuild, @CTnewsguild an @DallasNewsGuild.
If it seems to you like there are fewer journalists covering Connecticut, you’re right.
This week, those ranks grew thinner: Hearst CT unjustly fired a highly experienced reporter who was respected by his peers, sources and readers.
We call on management to reinstate our colleague – and to come to the bargaining table ready to negotiate a fair contract.
Among our demands: A fair and transparent progressive discipline policy, so our colleagues receive the respect they deserve and dismissals like this end.
In the meantime, some of the journalists who Hearst has fired for unsubstantiated and unclear reasons need our help to get by and support their families now that they are unemployed.
Please consider helping them out here: gofund.me/77e05d0d1
We had our first bargaining session on Zoom on June 1, with the support of dozens of unionized Hearst Newspapers colleagues from @AlbanyGuild, @AustinNewsGuild, @DallasNewsGuild and @SFCGuild Chronicle Guild.
Here's (some of) what the bargaining committee said:
Hearst’s Connecticut newspapers have been – and should remain – the state’s paper of record that can set both national and company standards as the media landscape continues to evolve.
We believe that the proposals we will share are a fair, equitable and attainable path toward that.
We’re prepared to bargain in good faith with Hearst. Will @hearst_np commit to doing the same?