“We, the journalists of The Hartford Courant, are uniting to form a union…”

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Read all about the newly-established Hartford Courant Guild here.

From NPR:

 “Nearly 80 percent of eligible staffers signed union cards saying they want to be represented by the Hartford Courant Guild, the organizers said. The move at the Courant follows similar successful efforts at the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the combined newsrooms of The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and the Daily Press in Newport News, Va. (The parent company, previously named Tronc, subsequently sold the LA Times to a billionaire investor.)

“In my short time in the newsroom, I’ve seen our staff decimated and demoralized by buyouts and layoffs,” said Kathleen McWilliams, who has been a Courant reporter since 2015. “I’ve watched our workloads increase without commensurate compensation and I’ve grown deeply concerned as my colleagues and I struggle to maintain the quality of our publication while corporate managers take home $5 million bonuses.”

 

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