Today Guardian & Observer journalists are on strike for 48 hours over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall.🧵
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- Thank you to all who joined us today. Another brilliant day on our historic picketline, including surprise guests Green Gartside and Jemma Redgrave. Last ones standing pic below… See you next week. It’s been immense. Solidarity, love and people power 🧡✊
- What an amazing day on the picket. End of day pic. Thank you for all your support. See you tomorrow 💪 #keepthefreepressfree
- Guardian and Observer journalists to strike over sale of the Observer
- "In full support of Guardian/Observer journos striking for the future of The Observer, threatened by The Scott Trust's plan to sell to Tortoise. There's no logic behind the decision. The Observer risks becoming a stripped-down website" 🙏🏻 @carolvorders ! ✊ #savetheobserver
- Replying to @gonuj93Why are we striking? GMG says the sale is “necessary”. But the Observer is a successful part of the Guardian family The deal has been rushed through in secret, without considering other bids Our owners have a £1.3bn fund & a duty to protect liberal journalism - why not invest?
- “I’m dismayed by both the Guardian’s offloading of the Observer, and the way it is being conducted. It does not reflect the values the Guardian promotes, and that all those who have given so much of their lives to these papers hold dear. (1/2)
- Replying to @gonuj93We'll be posting here all day and will be on the picket line at Guardian HQ - 90 York Way, London N1 Please follow & share our posts, & join us if you can. We hope some of the famous names supporting us (below) might come too 🙏 More info: nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver Solidarity 💪
- See you on the picket line in a few hours folks💪It’s The Observer’s 233rd birthday tomorrow. The world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, whose future has been put at existential risk by our billionaire owner. I couldn’t be prouder to be defending it on the picket line with Guardian & Observer colleagues tomorrow @gonuj93
- Day two of our 48 hr strike over plans to sell the Observer has kicked off! See you on the picket line. Thank you to wonderful @Philippa_Perry and Grayson, @MichaelRosenYes, @RosieBoycott, @jeremydeller and @paulwaugh MP for coming down yday ⬇️💪🧡Today Guardian & Observer journalists are on strike for 48 hours over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall.🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to [email protected] JOIN US - there's cake!
- “This cannot happen” The wonderful Jemma Redgrave speaking at our picketline. Of course it couldn’t be a protest against injustice without a #redgrave. 🧡 Thank you thank you thank you Jemma 🙏 #savetheobserver
- As we head into the Christmas break, GONUJ want to thank everyone who has supported us, with donations, statements, letters, reposts, and of course joining us on our strike days. Your solidarity is so much appreciated. Here's an update on where things stand. 🧵 (1/8)
- A statement from Tortoise said: “We hope the NUJ will listen to the growing number of voices on The Observer looking to see it given a new lease of life”. We've been listening to all the voices on the Observer. We're going on strike ✊
















