Roxana Kopetman

.@SCNGguild is now a thing! WE WON!

Southern California News Group Guild members have voted to approve their first contract, with 93% voting in favor of ratification. Read more here: scngguild.org/news/scng-guil… #SaveSoCalNews #SCNGGuild

🚨🚨🚨At the end of an all-day bargaining session yesterday, we told management they have a deadline of 12:01 am, Monday, Nov. 4, to bargain in good faith and present us with an acceptable proposal or we will begin our ULP strike.

.@SCNGguild journos OK strike (if needed) at: OC Register, LA Daily News, Riverside PE, SB Sun, Daily Breeze, Long Beach PT, the IE’s IVDB and #newspapers in Pasadena, Redlands, Whittier & the San Gabriel Valley. Story @latimes latimes.com/business/story…

Try 15 years without a cost of living increase. That’s how long many of the veteran Orange County journalists you follow have gone without a pay boost. So why do they stay? They care about their jobs and the community. Please support the ⁦@SCNGguild⁩

Support SoCal News Group Journalists Strike Fund gofund.me/8445799c

Over 90% of the 125 journalists across the 11 newsrooms represented by SCNG Guild participated in a strike vote. A landslide 94% voted to authorize union leaders to call for a strike. Read more here: scngguild.org/news/southern-… #SaveSoCalNews

In the first authorization for an open-ended strike ever taken by journalists at a newsroom owned by the secretive Alden Global Capital, the Southern California News Group union today announced its members have voted overwhelmingly in favor of striking. #SaveSoCalNews

More than 500 UC faculty members sent a letter to the Board of Regents today urging them to hold faculty and departments accountable for “promoting anti-Israel and activism and inciting antisemitism.” The letter noted that the board is facing “enormous backlash” from faculty…

The @LongBeachPost has published 5 stories since we walked off the job Thursday, all of which has been sponsored content/wire. This is what news will look like in LB without reporters. That’s why it’s imperative for our board to negotiate with @LBMGuild over how to save jobs.

We stand with our brothers and sisters at @LBMGuild ✊🏼 We urge @LongBeachPost management to recognize the guild, rescind the layoffs and come to the bargaining table. ✊🏼

New petition link just dropped 👇

This is outrageous. Hey, @LongBeachPost: I’m a subscriber and I want my money back! Your action is illegal, immoral and downright unDemocratic. I’m pissed.

Today we are asking you not to cross the picket line; do not click on Long Beach Post or Business Journal articles or engage with social media posts. Instead email CEO @MelissaEvansLBP at actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-m… and let her know you stand with striking workers.

I watch this video every #HolocaustRemembranceDay. And I cry every time, because it revives my hope in humanity! This is Nicolas Winton, a man who rescued 669 (mostly Jewish) children from Czechoslovakia during the #Holocaust & brought them to Britain in the Kindertransport.

Hoo boy — LAT’s top editor left after the paper’s wealthy doctor owner pushed back on a story about a wealthy doctor peer nytimes.com/2024/01/26/bus…

I UPDATED my job list. Thanks to everyone who sent me a #journalism job opening in the past 24 hrs. There are now more than 100 jobs on the list. Plz keep sharing this list to help all those laid off at the LA Times, Univision & Sports Illustrated. #CallingAllJournalists #Jobs

Statement from the @latguild on today's mass layoffs at the @latimes:

The *newspaper* is a punchline for lots of people now. ("Newspaper?! How old are you?" hahaha) Hate to break it, but aggregators & AI pull mightily from the ol' newspaper & its workers. Without us, you won't know what you don't know. Shoot, you DON'T know what you don't know.

"Preserving democracy is contingent upon a free and robust press, and the LA Times has been instrumental in upholding this democratic principle."