Read more about our editorial independence policy here. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas. Contact him at At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. One took another job in the meantime, Johnson said.īob Francis is business editor for the Fort Worth Report. Your subscription to The Fort Worth Star-Telegram includes the printed newspaper and unlimited access to all content on our newspapers website, our mobile site. A total of 21 members of the guild went on strike. Over 730 people and organizations donated to the strikers, she said. Johnson, a justice reporter for the paper, said the guild was heartened by the support of the community, including a recent $10,000 donation from Firefighters’ Local 440. McClatchy also has two other complaints against it – one for repudiation/modification of a contract and another for refusal to furnish information. The union filed an Unfair Labor Practice complaint in August. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s parent company, McClatchy, is now owned by hedge-fund Chatham Asset Management.
“Wages are low and, in many cases, the companies that own these media properties are making a great deal of money.” “The labor movement has seen a lot of success among media companies,” she said. Get the latest local and breaking news from Fort Worth, Arlington, Northeast Tarrant. Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, said she expects labor actions to continue next year, particularly among media organizations. Connect to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper app wherever you are. Staff at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are also striking, the nation’s first newspaper strike in decades. According to a report in the Post-Gazette, those talks Nearly 300 workers at Reuters went on strike for a day in August. This is the third strike nationally by journalists since August. That insurance will not resume until January, said Johnson. When the strike began, the newspaper canceled the strikers’ insurance. Leaders at McClatchy and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram have not responded to requests for a comment. Browse Star-Telegram obituaries, conduct other obituary searches, offer condolences/tributes, send flowers or create an online memorial. Members of the union will vote on the newspaper’s offer soon, according to Kaley Johnson, vice president of the Fort Worth NewsGuild. Among the union’s proposals was a $57,000 annual wage floor while McClatchy countered with its $45,000 offer. On the Newsguild’s Twitter feed, the union said that McClatchy had moved from the $45,000 minimum wage offer it has held to since the strike began. The newsroom’s union said that it had met with the company three times since the strike began and that there has been “significant movement for the first time in the two years” they have been in bargaining talks. 22, 24 days after going on strike citing the company’s unwillingness to “negotiate in good faith.” Members of the Fort Worth Newsguild at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram returned to work Dec.
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