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After four long years, we have a tentative agreement. Despite cuts across @gannett newsrooms, our @azrepublicguild won a contract that raises wages for everybody and preserves medical and retirement benefits.
Arizona Republic Guild 🌵
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Arizona Republic Guild 🌵
@azrepublicguild
United for one purpose: to protect our journalists and to preserve The Arizona Republic far into the future
- Some collective news: We’re unionizing.
- In a historic decision for The Arizona Republic newsroom, we voted 64-30 today in favor of the @azrepublicguild. We are here to stay. 🌵✊
- THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC GUILD IS WALKING OFF THE JOB 🧵 It's very simple, what @gannett is offering us would leave some members with LESS money in their paychecks each week, and that is unacceptable. We've started a GoFundMe to help support our journalists bit.ly/AZ-GoFundMe
- Today, members of the Arizona Republic Guild are walking out for one day in response to @gannett’s decimation of local newsrooms and its refusal to commit to equitable pay, outsourcing protections and affordable benefits in our first contract. 🧵 #GannettWalkout
- Yesterday evening, we were told that @Gannett is “respectfully rejecting” our request to voluntarily recognize the Arizona Republic Guild. With an overwhelming majority of support in our newsroom, we’re prepared to push ahead. We will vote, and we will win. 🌵
- We support reporter Jen Fifield. Harassment of any member of our staff is unacceptable. Jen is a dogged and well-respected journalist who has done an incredible job keeping the public informed about issues at the heart of our democracy.
- We are proud to announce we have ratified our first contract with 100% voting in favor of ratification. This first contract was four years in the making, and we appreciate all of the support we received from our community.
- We’ve campaigned for months pressuring @Gannett to give our two environmental reporting fellows health insurance, paid time off and job protections. It worked. Now our colleagues are no longer working during a pandemic without health insurance. Stand together, win together 🌵
- Today, an overwhelming majority of employees in our newsroom are asking @Gannett to voluntarily recognize the Arizona Republic Guild so we can begin contract negotiations as a unit of @news_guild.
- Women and people of color at @Gannett are underpaid by as much as $27,000, a @NewsGuild pay equity study has found. Gannett has pledged to diversify its workforce. But you can’t do that without fair pay. Sign our petition for equal pay for equal work: actionnetwork.org/letters/suppor…
00:00 - Patrick does such great work for his community and for @azcentral. Photojournalism isn’t only his job, but it’s what he loves to do. No one deserves to face this type of hostility for doing their jobs. We’re here for you @pjbreenphoto 💪🌵Rattled. Was just accosted while taking photos at a baseball tournament in Mesa. Parents yelled for me to not take pictures of their kid. I agreed and asked which kid was theirs. They didn’t want to say and said if I did they would “kick my ass.” They yelled I was the fake
