The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has been here for 111 years telling the stories of North Texas, and we’re not going anywhere. It’s in that spirit that the journalists of the Star-Telegram are forming a union as part of the to preserve and protect the newsroom we love.
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Eligible reporters, photographers and producers at the newspaper officially asked to recognize the Fort Worth NewsGuild as a unit of The NewsGuild- Communications Workers of America this morning.
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The Star-Telegram would become the eleventh McClatchy newsroom to form a union. It’s the second major newsroom to announce its plans to unionize in Texas, following a July announcement by the
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The announcement follows the finalization of McClatchy’s sale to Chatham, a New Jersey- based hedge fund. The sale came six months after McClatchy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following more than a decade of losses and layoffs.
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Our aim is to protect and maintain the strong journalism that is produced by our newsroom staff. We want a say in the decisions made about our workplace. We believe it’s important that Texans working in the community have a seat at the table.
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We’re asking to voluntarily recognize our union as they did with the .
TLDR: Our union will give us a better opportunity to tell the stories that matter to all of Fort Worth's diverse communities. And that is what we care about the most.
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Solidarity, comrades! This is the best thing to happen in Fort Worth in at least five years.
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