Big news out of Pittsburgh!

The Toledo NewsGuild would like to wish you a happy and safe Labor Day! Great turnout by our membership to the parade this morning. The Blade works because we do. 🗞️✊⚔️

👀 This is great, overdue news out of Pittsburgh as our union siblings have been on strike for 2+ years. We’re familiar with the company’s stonewalling tactics as we fight both for a new contract and to hold the Blocks accountable to us and our community. 💪

We delivered to Blade mgmt. a letter signed by the majority of members demanding: -Pay for the time it takes to complete the workload being asked of us. -Ending the current policy of overwork & job sharing. -Transparency on overtime & budgeting. -Respect. We won't accept less.

Great news out of Pittsburgh! We are well acquainted with the unreal levels of disrespect shown by the Blocks. We’re eager to ramp up our fight to win the respect we all deserve. ✊

📢 Call to action! Here’s a simple way to let all the BCI board members know that their union-busting tactics against our striking union siblings Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞 is failing the company & wasting time/money. Send a pre-written letter or write your own! actionnetwork.org/letters/dear-b…

We’re thrilled about The Paper! We noticed though that while the show’s writers had visited our newsroom for research, they missed a detail. The office in the promotional is clearly loosely based on ours. It’s missing the dingy feel and leaky ceiling that we’re familiar with.

Great food and camaraderie at our guild picnic yesterday at Glass City Metropark!

Happy Labor Day from the Toledo NewsGuild! We had a great time taking part in the parade today with the other unions that keep Toledo going in all kinds of industries.

Great being able to get together as a union late last week to watch The Paper, which is set at a fictional newspaper in Toledo. The Blade was scouted by folks behind the show early on in their research process.