Staff from @miaminewtimes and @phoenixnewtimes. Preserving the future of the alternative press.
Joined January 2020
- Tweets312
- Following197
- Followers491
- Likes466
Pinned Tweet
Staff from @phoenixnewtimes and @miaminewtimes are engaged in a fight with our parent company for fair wages, adequate parental leave and the ability to continue effectively covering our communities.
Please sign our petition to help make our voice heard.
tinyurl.com/pa8ewbr5
Babe wake up, new logo just dropped!
(Designed by @VMGGuild member Eric Torres) ❤️✊
We’re now on Instagram!
Follow us to stay updated on our fight for a fair contract ✊🗞️ instagram.com/voicemediaguil…
1
1
56
Hey y’all!
Since December, we’ve been negotiating a new contract with Voice Media Group (@VoiceMediaGroup).
Today, we returned to the bargaining table.
Here’s what we’re fighting for (🧵):
MLK Day recognized as a company holiday for all workers after years of it going unrecognized!
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
No contract no bylines!
Outsourcing jobs from the people who actually work for you is unacceptable. Employees deserve a livable wage today and into the future. @NNEdigital
Our company, @NNEdigital, continues to disrespect us. They want the power to outsource some jobs & want to give us only one 1.75% raise over next 3 years. With inflation, that's a pay cut. So we're demanding our bylines be removed from the paper until NNE treats us with dignity!
Come on in, @Gannett, the water's fine.
Congrats @VMGGuild! I remember when journalists talked about Phoenix New Times paying peanuts.
Now they have a higher base pay than The Arizona Republic + guaranteed annual pay raises.
@azrepublicguild has been bargaining for ~2 years. Stop dragging this out, @Gannett
Exciting news! After 10 months of bargaining, workers at Phoenix New Times and Miami New Times finally have their first contracts. 🎉🎊
(1/?)
Meanwhile Voice Media group @VoiceMediaGroup won't give New Times employees more than two (2!) weeks of parental leave! We've fought for months to get at least 3 weeks for both parents, but the company won't budge. Giving reasonable parental leave is the right thing to do!
This quoted post is unavailable.
This is workers taking power into their own hands. When management ran away, the employees got tough and are sticking with it.
Congrats to @theappealunion for taking charge. Please support them as they navigate an uncertain future
At the bargaining table we’ve repeatedly proposed making MLK Jr. Day a paid holiday. But @VoiceMediaGroup won’t agree to it. Their position is tone-deaf, archaic, and backwards.
It was stupid to refuse to recognize MLK Jr. Day in the 80s, and it’s even stupider to do so now that Juneteenth is a federal holiday. @VoiceMediaGroup needs to come back to the present and recognize MLK Jr. Day as a paid holiday.
This week, President Biden signed a bill recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. But @VoiceMediaGroup is stuck in the 80s and won’t agree to our proposal to make MLK Jr. Day a paid holiday. It’s ridiculous.
What year is it at @VoiceMediaGroup HQ? While the country is celebrating Juneteenth, our employer can't even recognize MLK Jr. Day as a paid holiday. They need to get with the times.
We did a bargain! The Phoenix unit has just completed its first bargaining session with Voice Media Group. Thank you all again for your support! ✊
Big news! The first bargaining date is on the books for the Phoenix unit! We couldn’t have gotten here without your support. Thank you to all community members who helped us get to this point.
✊✊✊
Today we are proud to announce our union representing employees of The Appeal as part of @news_guild. Together, we will make The Appeal better — for the people who work here and for our readers.
We've already set the minimum floor in both VMG contracts at higher rates than @Gannett pays many reporters, and we're not done pushing for more.
Waiting for @Gannett to "institute a company-wide starting salary that is a living wage, embrace transparency with pay data, voluntarily recognize employees who unionize and create policies to hire and retain people from underrepresented groups" like