Connecticut News Guild

@ctnewsguild.bsky.social

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Journalists at Hearst CT, advocating for each other and our Hearst colleagues around the country, ready to bargain our first contract alongside @newsguild.org and @nyguild.bsky.social 🐳 https://linktr.ee/ctnewsguild

THE NLRB JUST SAID WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW: OUR ELECTION WAS VALID.
HEARST:
WE’RE READY TO BARGAIN.
ARE YOU?

A storm covered the state in snow, and our members covered the state in journalism – including stories by Peter Yankowski, Jayden Nguyen, and Natasha Sokoloff and photos by Arnold Gold and Ned Gerard

OUT: Speculating about our first contract/IN: Actually negotiating it
OUT: Confusion/ IN: Transparency
OUT: Not talking to our coworkers/ IN: Talking to all of our coworkers, all of the time
OUT: The Meriden office elevator (still, somehow)/ IN: Reporting in the communities we cover
OUT: Leaving journalism for better-paying jobs to afford life/ IN: Journalists being paid a living wage
OUT: Getting called ‘negative’ for trying to improve our working conditions/ IN: Demanding answers and pushing for a contract anyway
OUT: Regular shirts on Thursdays/ IN: Red NewsGuild of NY shirts on Thursdays

Six smiling Hearst CT employees wearing beautiful whale t-shirts hold up a mission statement signed by dozens of members